Extra Moist Lemon, Sour Cream and Vanilla Pound Cake

"Like eating a slice of decadent wedding cake. Can be used as one too!"
 
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Ready In:
1hr 15mins
Ingredients:
11
Serves:
12
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ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat oven to 325°.
  • Spray a Bundt pan with nonstick spray and set aside.
  • Cream together softened Butter and Sugar.
  • Add Eggs, one at a time and beat,then add Sour Cream.
  • Sift Flour and Soda together and add next along with the Instant Pudding.
  • Last add Vanilla, Lemon Extract, Juice and Zest, Mixing until batter is light and fluffy.
  • Pour into the sprayed Bundt pan and bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
  • Warning! Some oven temperatures may vary so keep an eye on this one!
  • Serve with a Lemon Glaze or just sprinkle with Powdered Sugar.
  • Enjoy!

Questions & Replies

  1. Will I need two loaf pans instead of one Bundt pan to make this cake?
     
  2. Hi all, this is a wonderful recipe but I seem to have a problem with my cake cratering. I use two loaf pans and both rise up wonderfully but then collapse. This time there was a lemony pudding center. Although my family raved about it and loved it, I was not happy. Any suggestions out there? Thanks much.
     
  3. The recipe says 1/2 of sour cream. I have never seen 1/2 or .5 sour cream containers in the grocery store. Did mean the recipe mean to say use one half of an 8 oz container of sour cream? I need clarification on 1/2 of what because sour cream comes in different sizes.
     
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Reviews

  1. FANTASTIC pound cake. I only have regular sized bundt pans, and I don't think all the batter would have fit in any of them. I used a 10" tube pan, with 4" high sides. Baked til it tested done, around 1 hr., 20 mins. was perfect. I followed the recipe, except I switched step 5 and 6, doing 6 before 5. I didn't beat the flour a long time, just til it was fully incorporated, slowly adding the sifted mixture with the mixer running on low. In my cake experience, beating cake batter makes for a tough cake. I finished it off with a lemon-limoncello syrup made with 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice, 1/2 cup granulated sugar, and 1/2 cup limoncello. Simmered til sugar was dissolved. When cake was 10 minutes out of the oven, I poked holes in it, and while still in the pan, I soaked it with the lemon syrup. It came out of the pan beautifully when completely cool. I did line the bottom of the tube pan with waxed paper, and I greased and floured the pan generously. This cake has a great lemon flavor, probably one of the best I've ever tasted!
     
  2. If I could give this 10 stars I would. What a wonderful dense and moist cake, I have to say that this is by far the BEST lemon cake I have ever made and eaten and ALL my guests agreed and asked for the recipe. YUMM!!! :0)
     
  3. So excellent! I didn't use the glaze. No need! The crumb was soft, light, fluffy, tender, moist and the cake rose so high. I baked it for 1 hour 20 minutes . Thank you for such a wonderful recipe.
     
  4. This is a fantastic cake. If I could give it 6 stars I would. I only ever make the half quanitity. I had to make quite a few changes to it - I couldn't get the lemon pudding mix so I doubled the lemon juice. I didn't have lemon extract - so I left it out. I used vanilla extract (which is twice the strength of the essence), but still added the full amount. Also I substitute vegetable oil for the butter (I use 1-2 tablespoons nuttelex/margarine and fill the rest of the measure with oil). This cake is so moist and yummy. It also freezes beautifully. I have made it three times now and never bothered with any form of icing - it is perfect the way it is.
     
  5. I've tried this recipe twice and I can't seem to get it to cook all the way through. The first time I let's it stay in the oven for 1hour and 30min. Now this time I left it in the oven for 2 hours and it's still not done all the way through. What am I doing wrong?
     
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Tweaks

  1. added a dry form of lemon powder to ramp it up a bit more...compliments galore...thank you so much for sharing this!! I actually use it as a wedding cake base on occasion..and make a fresh lemon glaze drizzled over it wit butter as well added to the mix...LOVE LOVE LOVE!!
     
  2. Great, easy to follow recipe. I always add a few extra drops of lemon abstract and a little extra lemon juice and zest. I accidentally added baking powder, instead of baking soda, but it still came out great. I also poked holes all the way around and all the way through to the bottom and drizzled on lemon glaze, that I'd made and had leftover from another recipe. I also used 2 cups of sugar instead of 3, as a previous reviewer suggested, since the package of lemon pudding was included in the recipe. I probably could've let the cake stay in the oven an extra 10-15 min.
     

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