Moist southern lemon pound cake, made easy. This old fashioned lemon pound cake is super moist – You’re going to love it!
I love a good old fashioned pound cake. Especially when it’s a southern lemon pound cake made from scratch. Don’t get me wrong, I love my semi homemade lemon pound cake loaf recipe (which was a lemon pound cake made with cake mix), that I uploaded a few months back. But from scratch pound cake recipes are my favorite! In this post I’m going to share one of my all time favorite easy lemon pound cake recipes. This real southern lemon pound cake is made with fresh lemons, real butter, buttermilk, and sour cream.
Give this moist southern lemon pound cake recipe a try, and tell me what you think!
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Southern Lemon Pound Cake
This is a must-try, easy, moist southern lemon pound cake made from scratch. A deliciously sweet treat!
Servings 8 servings
Ingredients
Cake
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
- 2 1/4 cups granulated sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 4 tbsp lemon juice
- zest from 2 large lemons
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
Glaze
- 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 3-4 tbsp lemon juice
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
- Generously grease and flour a bundt pan.
- Combine the flour, baking powder, salt and set aside.
- Cream together the softened butter, sugar, eggs, buttermilk, sour cream, lemon juice, lemon zest and vanilla extract.
- Slowly fold in the flour mixture.
- Pour the batter into the prepared bundt pan.
- Bake for 1 hour 10 minutes, or until completely done.
- While the lemon pound cake is baking, combine the ingredients for the glaze.
- Once the cake is done baking, move from oven and let cool a few minutes.
- Gently turn the bundt pan upside down to carefully remove the cake from the pan. Set aside.
- Drizzle the glaze over the cake while it's still warm.
- Let sit until cool.
- Serve & enjoy!
Loved this classic Lemon Pound Cake recipe? Try these recipes as well!
Lemon Loaf Pound Cake (made with cake mix)
Question: Do I fold in the flour mixture into the cream mixture with a spatula or my hand mixer? Thank you, I love your recipes!
A spatula 🙂
Can you substute cake flour for allpurpose flour?
For best result stick to the recipe listed.
Do you have a cook book out? I would like to get one for me and my granddaughter who is just learning to cook. Thanks Love your recipes.
Hi LeVan! I don’t have one yet, but stay tuned. 🙂
Can a sugar substitute be used
Sure
Hi. I made this cake for my Thanksgiving dinner. It was a hit! Thank you for never disappointing me. This is my favorite recipe blog.
Thanks for trying my recipe Valerie! XOXO
This cake right here…omg! I have been searching for the perfect lemon pound cake for years and this is the one. Saw Lexitelevision talking about it so I had to try it. It’s so moist and flavorful and delicious. I have a thing for cold cake so I kept it in the fridge and it was gone in a few days. I did have an issue with getting it out of the bundt pan but that’s my fault because I didn’t let it rest long enough, lesson learned. Thank you for sharing this recipe.
Hello Rosie. What exactly did you use to grease the pan? PAM spray or Crisco (do people still use that white stuff))?
Happy Holidays:-)
I like to use Pam Baking Spray
Hi Rosie! Do you suggest using fresh lemon juice? Or would that leave too much room for variance depending on the lemon ripeness? Thanks!
Yes, fresh lemon juice is best.
Your receipes have given me the motivation to cook. Your receipes are so seasoned and deliciously amazing!!! The receipes l have tried has never let me down. You make cooking fun and the directions are easy to follow.
Thank you Rosie for sharing your wonderful gift of cooking.
Thanks for the recipe, is there a substitute for sour cream e g yoghurt because sour cream is difficult to get at my place.
plain yogurt can be used.
I have been looking for the recipe for my Granny’s Lemon Pound cake and when I tried yours it took me right back to my childhood! Thank you so much for ending my search. You have made this southern child’s day!
For the greasing part, do I use grease spray then put in the flour?
Yes 🙂
Confirmed. I’ve made this and it was a H I t!!!!
Hi! Can I use self rising flour?
For best results, follow the written recipe Happy Holidays!
I can’t wait to get started in baking this Southern Lemon Pound Cake!
Thank you, from a person who likes lemon cakes, etc.
I just made this cake and it is absolutely delicious! I have been searching for a good lemon pound cake recipe and I found it with this recipe! Thanks so much for sharing!
I just made this cake for sunday dessert and omg amazing! Thank you so much i did add 1 more stick of butter and an extra egg….. Thank you so much for sharing your recipes.
I made this cake, I made a mistake and used cream cheese instead of sour cream, I made both cake, this one came out so moist. I moved to Suffolk, VA and my Son lives in New York, l made this cake and sent it to him. Boy, I am the best mother in the world. Thank you for the recipe. I also tried the coconut and pineapple cake. Delicious, delicious, delicious.
This recipe is amazing I absolutely love it
Best recipe ever