Oil Pound Cake
By: lily ng
Published: Friday, July 23, 2010 - 8:08am

Ingredients




2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
of salt
1 cup granulated sugar
2/3 cup cooking oil
2 tablespoons orange zest
3 large eggs
1 tablespoon cup orange juice+ 2 lemon/lime juice

Preparation

1 Preheat oven to   350 F (180 degrees C). Grease, line and flour a bundt pan or a 12 x 4 inch loaf pan. 2 Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt into a large bowl. 3 Beat eggs, zest and sugar in the food processor until fluffy.  Then add in the oil.  Pulse to combine. 4 Add in the sieved flour and pulse. 5 Lastly add in the juice, pulse a few times until batter is well combined.  Scrap the sides of bowl now and then. 6 Pour batter into prepared bundt/ loaf pan and bake in preheated oven for 40 -50 minutes. Check for doneness. 7 Remove and leave on rack to cool for at least 10 minutes before removing cake from pan.

About


A very dear friend's son cannot have any milk products and he loves cake, i found this recipe from Alice Medrich’s book “Pure Dessert”, I have changed the ingredients to what i have in hand .  This cake was very rich, moist and not heavy, a perfect characteristics  of a pound cake,