Copycat Recipe: Starbucks Lemon Loaf

This is one of the recipes Mike put on my Facebook wall a while back, and we've been dying to make it.  I just photographed [and obviously not very well, because there aren't very many...] while he did all the baking.  It definitely lived up to expectations!

Ingredients:

Pound Cake:

1 1/2 cups flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

3 eggs

1 cup sugar

2 tablespoons butter, softened

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 teaspoon lemon extract

1/3 cup lemon juice

1/2 cup oil

Icing:

1 cup powdered sugar

2 tablespoon milk

1/2 teaspoon lemon extract

Directions:

- Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a bowl.

- Use a mixer to blend together the eggs, sugar, butter, vanilla, lemon extract and lemon juice in a medium bowl.

- Pour wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and blend until smooth.

- Add oil and mix well.

 

- Pour batter into a well greased 9x5-inch loaf pan.

- Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes or until a toothpick stuck into center of the cake comes out clean.

- Make the lemon icing by combining all the icing ingredients in a small bowl with an electric mixer on low speed.

- When the loaf is cool, remove it from pan and frost the top with the icing.

- Let the icing set up before slicing.