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Simple and easy way to make the 1920’s Vintage and Famous Ritz Carlton Hotel-Style Lemon Pound Cake. This homemade recipe of Ritz Carlton Hotel-Style Lemon Pound Cake is so easy to make a moist and delicious lemon pound cake at home.
I used Stand Mixer for easier mixing but you can also use Hand Mixer instead if you don’t have a Stand Mixer.
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/Nj7YJ2JNrqc
KitchenAid RKP26M1XQG 600 Stand Mixer
Ingredients
Serves 4 – 5
- 435g (3 cups) All Purpose Flour – https://amzn.to/3mmQVRD
- 1 tbsp Baking Powder – https://amzn.to/3usJA5J
- 3/4 tsp Salt – https://amzn.to/39MgmHd
- 283.5g (1 and 1/4 cup) Unsalted Butter (room temperature) – https://amzn.to/3wr9IzU
- 47.75g (1/4 cup) Shortening (room temperature) – https://amzn.to/3fL1H2S
- 2 and 1/2 cups Sugar – https://amzn.to/3wvNxsb
- 5 pcs Egg – https://amzn.to/3dBRt23
- 1 cup Whole Milk – https://amzn.to/3cPUgpa
- 4 tbsp Lemon Juice – https://amzn.to/3ww7Gi4
- Lemon Zest (1/2 of Lemon) – https://amzn.to/3ww7Gi4
- 2 tsp Vanilla Extract – https://amzn.to/3sTLigm
Steps
[oven and pan prep]
- Preheat oven to 350F
- Grease the cake pan and coat with the all purpose flour
[flour mixture]
- Sift the all purpose flour, baking powder and salt then set aside
[batter mixture]
- In the Stand Mixer, add butter, shortening, sugar and mix until smooth.
- Add vanilla extract
- Add eggs one at a time (drop the next egg once the previous egg is well incorporated into the mixture)
- Once the eggs are well incorporated, add the flour mixture and milk alternately little by little
- Once butter mixture and flour mixture are well combined, stop the mixer and add lemon juice and lemon zest
- Gently combine the mixture
- Transfer the batter mixture into a cake pan. (Do NOT overfill your pan. Leave at least an inch to 1 1/2 inch unfilled)
[baking]
- Pop in the preheated oven (350F) and bake it for 1 hr and 15 minutes or do the toothpick test
- Once the cake is cooked, cool it completely
- Serve it!
