Lemon Cream Cheese Pound Cake
We love lemon cakes, and this Lemon Cream Cheese Pound Cake has the most wonderful texture and flavor! If you love pound cakes, save this recipe!
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Why we Love It
- Pound cake recipes are so simple and delicious!
- The cream cheese in the pound cake adds richness and enhances the texture (much like the ricotta cheese in our Lemon Ricotta Cake).
- Everyone loves lemon!
- Perfect for when you're searching for birthday cake recipes, summer cakes, or just a delicious dessert for family and friends.
How to Make Lemon Cream Cheese Pound Cake
This delicious recipe is based on our Cream Cheese Pound Cake, and aside from the cream cheese, it is also similar to our Buttermilk Pound Cake recipe and others.
You can find the full, printable recipe card at the bottom of this post. Here is a quick look at our steps!
- Grease and flour a bundt cake pan or tube pan. Preheat the oven to 325℉
- In a separate bowl, whisk the cake flour, baking powder, and salt to combine, set aside for later.
- Using an electric mixer (paddle attachment if using a stand mixer), mix the softened unsalted butter and softened cream cheese on medium speed until smooth.
- Next, gradually add the sugar and mix on medium speed until light and fluffy for three minutes.
- Add the eggs to the mixing bowl one at a time, blending after each until the yolk is incorporated.
- In a bowl or measuring cup, combine the ¼ cup of milk, ¼ cup lemon juice, lemon extract and zest. Set aside.
- With the mixer on low speed, add the flour mixture alternately with the milk mixture to the butter/sugar/egg mixture in the mixing bowl. Begin and end with the dry ingredients. We do three additions of dry ingredients, alternating with two additions of wet. Mix just until combined.
- Scoop the batter into prepared bundt pan.
- Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 5-10 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. *Baking times may vary.
- This makes approximately 9.5 cups of batter.
- Allow to cool in the pan for 10 minutes before turning out.
For the Glaze
Decorate the pound cake however you like! We often use a simple glaze, which is a mixture of confectioner's sugar, a bit of milk, flavoring, and a pinch of salt. Today, our flavoring was lemon extract to give a little added boost of lemon flavor.
If using a piped design as we did today, you'll need a thicker glaze, so use just a very small amount of milk and add bit by bit to reach desired consistency. If you plan to apply the glaze as a drip (as we did in our Sour Cream Pound Cake for example, it will need to be a touch thinner.)
*For our design, I spooned the glaze into a piping bag fitted with a tip 3 and piped on the flowers, leaves, and dots. It needs to be thick enough that it won't run down the side! ;0)
You could also use a very scaled down version of buttercream, or simply top with a dusting of powdered sugar (tapped through a fine sifter), or you can skip the decoration and serve with berries and whipped cream or a scoop of ice cream!
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More Pound Cakes
We have so many more pound cakes and bundt cake recipes to share with you!
A few of our favorites are: Coconut Pound Cake, Chocolate Chip Pound Cake, Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake, and Strawberry Pound Cake!
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Lemon Cream Cheese Pound Cake
Ingredients
- 2 sticks unsalted butter softened (equivalent of 226g or 1 cup butter)
- 8 oz block cream cheese, softened. We used one package (8 oz.). Full fat cream cheese.
- 3 cups (600g) sugar
- 5 large eggs room temperature place in a bowl of warm water for 5 minutes to speed up the process.
- 3 cups (342 g) cake flour (Not self rising. We use Swan's Down, bleached)
- ½ teaspoon (2g) baking powder
- ½ teaspoon (3g) salt
- ¼ cup (60g) milk (we recommend whole milk or 2 percent).
- 1 tablespoon (12g) Lemon Extract
- ¼ cup Lemon Juice plus zest (The approximate amount of one lemon.) If you have less than ¼ lemon juice, make up the difference with milk.
Glaze
- 1 cup confectioners sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoons milk Add additional bit by bit until you reach desired consistency.
- pinch of salt
- ½ tsp lemon extract, optional Adjust amount to your liking.
Instructions
- Grease and flour a bundt cake pan or tube pan.
- Preheat the oven to 325℉
- In a separate bowl, whisk the cake flour, baking powder, and salt to combine, set aside for later.
- Using an electric mixer (paddle attachment if using a stand mixer), mix the butter and cream cheese on medium speed until smooth.
- Next, gradually add the sugar and beat until light and fluffy for three minutes.
- Add the eggs to the mixing bowl one at a time, blending after each until the yolk is incorporated.
- Combine the ¼ cup of milk, ¼ cup lemon juice, lemon extract, and zest.
- With the mixer on low speed, add the flour mixture alternately with the milk to the butter/sugar/egg mixture in the mixing bowl. Begin and end with the dry ingredients. We do three additions of dry ingredients, alternating with two additions of wet. Mix just until incorporated.
- Scoop batter into prepared bundt pan.
- Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 5-10 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. *Baking times may vary.
- This makes approximately 9.5 cups of batter.
- Allow to cool in the pan for 10 minutes before turning out.
Glaze
- Combine ingredients, adding the milk bit by bit until you reach desired consistency for dripping or piping. If piping, it will need to be thick.
Decorating the Cake
- Once the cake has cooled, you can apply the glaze however you like, whether piping a drizzle or a design. If doing a piped design, the glaze will need to be pretty thick so that it will not run.
Excellent cake, delicious