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Lemon Paste Mini Lemon Pound Cakes

Modified: Mar 28, 2024 · Published: Aug 26, 2018 by Anna · This post may contain affiliate links · 2 Comments

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It’s time for pound cake! But it’s not just any pound cake. These are mini lemon pound cakes made with Nielsen Massey Lemon Paste. I found out about the flavoring from a friend who works at Sur La Table and gets the inside scoop on such things. Similar to vanilla paste, the lemon paste has a thick consistency and the flavor of 1000 lemon drops.

lemon paste lemon pound cake

I tried to take a picture of it going into the cake so you can see what it looks like. It's thick and sweet.

consistency of lemon paste

Mini Loaf Pans

To try the lemon paste, I'd planned on using this recipe but with lemon paste in place of pound cake flavoring. However, when I clicked over to Nielsen Massey I noticed their tried and true lemon pound cake recipe was very similar. I ended up using their recipe, but adapting it to fit small loaf pans.

lemon paste lemon pound cake

As expected, the pound cake was excellent as was the accompanying glaze recipe. I'm on a 3x5 inch mini pound cake kick and haven't tested it as a normal size loaf, but Nielsen Massey's recipe is for one full loaf so if you don't have the small loaf pans you can just use their recipe.

Lemon Drizzle of Lemon Paste Pound Cakes

Other Uses for Lemon Paste

So I can attest that lemon paste works beautifully in mini lemon pound cakes and am looking forward to trying it in other things. Nielsen Massey mentions on their website that it can also be used in savory dishes such as salmon and pasta. I was a little skeptical, but I put a tiny bit on some steamed broccoli and it was very good even though it's sweet. The little bit of sweetness with the lemon actually enhanced the savory dish, so I think if you mix it with something like butter and apply it to savory dishes you'll get even better results.

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Recipe

lemon paste lemon pound cake

Lemon Paste Lemon Pound Cake

Anna
Lemon Paste Lemon Pound Cake
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Prep Time 20 minutes mins
Cook Time 45 minutes mins
Total Time 1 hour hr 5 minutes mins
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 4 mini cakes

Ingredients
 

  • 8 ounces unsalted butter (230 grams)
  • 1 ¼ cups granulated sugar (230 grams)
  • 4 large eggs room temperature
  • 3 tablespoons Nielsen Massey Lemon Paste
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour (180 grams)
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder

Lemon Glaze

  • ¾ cup confectioners' sugar
  • 4 teaspoons lemon paste
  • 2 teaspoons of water or as needed

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Grease and flour 4 3x5 inch loaf pans.
  • With an electric mixer, beat the softened butter until creamy. Gradually add the sugar (⅓ cup at a time) beating well. Continue beating butter and sugar until fluffy.
  • Reduce speed to low and add 1 egg. Mix on low until egg is fully blended, then increase speed and beat for 30 seconds. Repeat with remaining eggs, adding individual eggs on low and increasing speed. Beat in the lemon paste and the salt.
  • Mix together the flour and the baking powder, then add to the batter and stir on low until fully blended.
  • Spoon batter into the pans and bake for about 45 minutes or until a tester inserted comes out clean.
  • Let cool in pans for 30 minutes, loosening it slightly from the sides while cooling.
  • To make glaze, combine sugar and lemon paste, then add water 1 teaspoon at a time, stirring until creamy and smooth. Drizzle over cake in pan. Allow the glaze to set somewhat, then remove from pan.

Notes

For best results, weigh the flour. If using White Lily you'll definitely want to weigh it as the volume may be a little different.
Keyword lemon paste, mini pound cakes
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  1. T. Martin says

    August 26, 2018 at 10:10 pm

    Liked that you were able to try a little in a savory dish. Just as savory needs a little sweet, pastry needs a little salt...a bit of cooking symmetry.

    Now what would be interesting is to test lemon paste against lemon oil as oils are reported to be the strongest form of flavoring.

  2. Sue says

    August 26, 2018 at 9:21 am

    I’m going to get my hands on some of that! Your loaves look great and I appreciate the description of the lemon paste. Looking forward to the lemon cookies too!

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