BUTTER POUND CAKE WITH LEMON
ICING
 
1 cup (2 sticks) butter
3 cups sugar
1/2 cup shortening (Crisco)
3 cups all-purpose flour
5 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tsp. lemon extract
1/2 tsp. butter extract
1 cup milk

Cream butter, sugar and shortening. Mix flour (a little at a time) then add 1 egg at a time. Combine remaining ingredients. Bake at 325°F (do not preheat oven) for 1 1/2 hours.

ICING:

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
1 (1 lb.) box confectioners' sugar
1 tbsp. water
Minute Maid lemon juice

Mix softened butter and confectioners' sugar together then add water and lemon juice (as much as you would like for a lemony taste). Ice cooled cake.

 

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