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- Life Happens… and the Recipe for the Best Pound Cake Ever
- Best Pound Cake Ever
- 1 lb butter, room temperature
- 3 cups sugar
- 6 large eggs, room temperature
- 4 cups cake flour, sifted
- 3/4 cup milk
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp lemon extract
- Glaze
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup fresh Meyer lemon juice (any fresh lemon juice will work)
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