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With creamy lemon icing and a buttery-vanilla crumb, this sourdough lemon cake will be your new go-to pound cake.

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The cake batter uses only 10 ingredients and comes together quickly. Dry ingredients: Grab some all-purpose flour, baking powder, and salt. Simple! Wet ingredients: You'll need room temperature unsalted butter. Then, some sugar, sourdough starter (either active sourdough starter or discard, both work fine), eggs, sour cream (this helps keep the crumb a bit lighter), vanilla extract, and some fresh lemons.

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Spoon and spread the batter into prepared loaf pan and bake for 55-65 minutes, tenting with aluminum foil halfway through the baking time. Pound cakes are very dense and take a long time to bake. The cake is done when a toothpick inserted into the center comes out mostly clean with just a few moist crumbs stuck on it.

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Grab all the recipe details and tips for baking the perfect lemon loaf via the link below!