Lemon Pound Cake ~

3 cups flour
3/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup shortening
2 2/3 cups white sugar
3 jumbo eggs
1 cup milk (I use 2%)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp lemon extract
zest of 1 lemon

Do not preheat oven. Grease and flour cake pan. Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. In a bowl, beat butter, shortening and sugar. Add eggs and blend. Add flour mix and milk. Add vanilla and lemon extracts. Pour batter into pan. Set oven to 350F and bake for 1 hr and 20 min. Let cake cool in pan on cooling rack and invert onto it to finish cooling.

Lemon Glaze ~

For a thicker glaze, add more lemon juice. For a thinner, add less.

This glaze consists of just powdered sugar, lemon juice and lemon zest.