Pound Cake with Coconut Oil

This meal is excellent for fall. Serve alongside apple slices.

Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins
Additional Time: 30 mins
Total Time: 2 hrs 20 mins
Servings: 12
Yield: 1 Bundt(R) cake

Ingredients

  1. 3 cups all-purpose flour
  2. ½ teaspoon baking powder
  3. ¼ teaspoon salt
  4. ½ cup sour cream
  5. ½ cup milk
  6. 3 tablespoons vanilla extract
  7. 1 tablespoon almond extract
  8. 3 cups white sugar
  9. 1 cup extra-virgin coconut oil, at room temperature
  10. ½ cup unsalted butter, softened
  11. 5 large eggs
  12. 1 tablespoon lemon zest
  13. 1 cup powdered sugar
  14. 3 tablespoons lemon juice, or more to taste
  15. 1 teaspoon lemon zest

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®).
  2. Mix flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl and set aside. Place sour cream and milk into a mixing cup, add vanilla and almond extract, and stir well to incorporate.
  3. Cream sugar, coconut oil, and butter together in a large mixing bowl on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Add lemon zest and stir well. Beat in the flour mixture with the sour cream mixture, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Spoon batter into the prepared pan.
  4. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 1/2 hours.
  5. While cake is baking, mix powdered sugar, lemon juice, and lemon zest for together in a bowl to make the glaze.
  6. Cool cake on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Turn out onto a plate. Spoon 1/2 of the glaze onto the hot cake. Let cool, 20 to 30 minutes; drizzle remaining glaze onto the cooled cake before serving.
  7. Important: Do not use refined coconut oil, only use extra-virgin coconut oil, easily found at health food stores if not in your local grocery. It is highly fragrant and delicious, whereas refined coconut (as for frying) is tasteless and odorless.

Nutrition Facts

Calories 641 kcal
Carbohydrate 86 g
Cholesterol 103 mg
Dietary Fiber 1 g
Protein 7 g
Saturated Fat 23 g
Sodium 109 mg
Sugars 62 g
Fat 31 g
Unsaturated Fat 0 g

 

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