Lemon Olive Oil Pound Cake
Author: Kirsten | My Kitchen in the Rockies
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 40 mins
Total time: 1 hour
Ingredients
  • 1¾ cup ( 210 g) flour
  • 1¼ teaspoon baking powder
  • ¾ teaspoon salt
  • 5 large eggs
  • 1 cup ( 200 g) sugar
  • Finely grated zest of 6 lemons
  • ⅔ cup ( 160 ml) extra-virgin olive oil
  • 3 Tablespoons ( 45 ml) whole milk
  • 1 Tablespoon ( 15 ml) fresh lemon juice
  • 7 Tablespoons ( 100 g) unsalted butter, melted
Instructions
  1. Preheat your oven to 350 F Convection.
  2. Grease two 8½ x 4½ - inch loaf pans. ( Mine were slightly bigger which resulted in flatter cakes and a slightly shorter baking time.)
  3. In a bowl mix flour, salt and baking powder. Set aside.
  4. Let's start a water bath using a medium saucepan with 2 inches of water. Bring the water to a boil.
  5. In a heat proof mixing bowl ( I used the metal bowl of my stand mixer) stir together eggs, sugar, and lemon zest.
  6. Set the egg mixture bowl over the simmering water and whisk it until it is warm to touch, about 2 minutes.
  7. Take the bowl of the heat and beet it on medium speed of your stand mixer until the mixture thickens and turns a very light yellow, about 6 minutes.
  8. In the meantime mix together oil, milk, and lemon juice.
  9. Once the egg mixtures is done turn the speed of the mixer on low and add the oil mixture until combined.
  10. Add flour mixture until just combined.
  11. Mix in the melted butter.
  12. Divide the batter evenly into the prepared loaf panes.
  13. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean. MIne was done in 32 minutes ( bigger loaf pans). Yours could take 40 - 50 mins. Baking times may vary.
  14. Let cool cakes in the loaf pans for 5 minutes before transferring them to a cooling rack.
Notes
In case you would like a glaze on your lemon olive oil pound cakes, just mix 2 cups of sifted confectioners sugar with 3½ Tablespoons fresh lemon juice until smooth. Drizzle the glaze evenly over the top of both loaf cakes.
Please use GMO free and organic ingredients for this recipe.
Recipe by My Kitchen in the Rockies | A Denver, Colorado Food Blog at http://www.mykitchenintherockies.com/2015/01/24/lemon-olive-oil-pound-cake/