meyer lemon cardamom pound cake

By foodiva

Ingredients

• 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp ground cardamom
• 2 Tbsps Meyer lemon zest
• 1 cup sour cream or plain Greek-style yogurt
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1/3 cup canola oil
• icing sugar for dusting

Preparation

Step 1

Instructions
Preheat oven to 350ºF. Spray a 8-1/2" x 4-1/4" loaf pan with cooking spray. Line with parchment leaving long tails out two sides.
Combine flour, baking powder, salt and cardamom in a bowl.
In another large bowl rub lemon zest into the sugar with your fingers or back of a spoon. Add sour cream, eggs, vanilla and oil; whisk well. Slowly stir in flour mixture until blended. Pour into prepared loaf pan and bake 50-55 minutes until a cake tester placed into the centre comes out clean. Cool completely. Pull out of loaf pan by grabbing the two tails of parchment you left out the sides.

Instructions