Lemon Pound Cake with Lemon Glaze

Ingredients:
1 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup vegetable oil
3 cups sugar
5 eggs
3 cups flour
1 cup milk
1 tsp lemon extract

Directions:
Preheat oven to 300 degrees.  Grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan.  Beat butter in a large bowl at medium speed gradually, adding oil, and beating until well blended. Gradually add sugar, beating well.  Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.  Add flour to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour.  Mix just until blended after each addition.  Stir in lemon extract.  Pour batter into prepared pan.  Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour and 30 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in the center of cake comes out clean.  Cool in pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes.  Remove from pan and place directly on wire rack.

Lemon Glaze

1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 tsp grated lemon rind

Combine glaze ingredients, stirring until sugar dissolves.  Brush lemon glaze on sides of cake and spoon glaze over top, a little at a time.  Let lemon pound cake cool completely.

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