Fresh Lemon Pound Cake: Secret Family Recipe From Catering Days

Easy Fresh Lemon Pound Cake – Do you have a favorite homemade lemon pound cake recipe?  This is a vintage recipe.

Uncle Wen’s egg-rich fresh Lemon Pound Cake is not for the faint of heart and no friend of the waistline but once you’ve had a bite of this old fashioned classic pound cake – nothing else compares.

Sprinkle with powdered sugar or drizzle with a tart lemon glaze.

Uncle Wen’s Fresh Lemon Pound Cake Is The Best!

He used to entice us to come visit by saying “I’ll make a lemon pound cake!”… as if we needed a reason to see his smiling face.

Old Fashioned Lemon Pound Cake

This pound cake was definitely reserved for special occasions.  Although we first tasted it back in the late 50’s and again in the early 60’s, he never shared the recipe – probably scared to shed light on the ingredients.

There are much lighter versions of this pound cake (like this marbled pound cake), even glazed lemon pound cakes, but your owe it to your taste buds to baking a pound cake flavored with fresh lemons.  Make it at least once- the old fashioned way.

I’m positive this cake made it on the menu of many Philadelphia catered events – summer and winter.

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All I remember is the incredibly moist yet dense texture of the cake. It simply melted in your mouth. He may have baked other goodies we never knew about but this cake became his trademark recipe.

In time, I found his famous recipe written on the flyleaf of an old cookbook that I inherited. It has become a family favorite reserved for the holiday season.

Our waistlines can’t afford it more often than once a year!

Yields a 10 inch pound cake that does not sit around long enough to go stale.

Thank you Uncle Wen!

You can bake this dense, melt in your mouth pound cake in regular loaf pans but when baked in a tube pan, it becomes a spectacular centerpiece on the dessert table. A regular pièce de résistance!

P.S. The Starbucks lemon pound cake comes in a close second in the old fashioned flavor department! But how can you beat this? Only 6 ingredients add up to an easy recipe for one of their best selling dessert – lemon pound cake.

Old Fashioned Marble Pound Cake

I want to publicly thank the sender of a recent email for pointing out a long standing omission in the recipe. Probably best to add the flour to the batter!

A clarifying fix was made because it was not my intent to recreate this scene from the Swedish Chef  although he is a family favorite! He’s messy but adorable!