Christmas Pound Cake

Name: Christmas Pound Cake
Ingredients: 2 cups sugar; 1 cup margarine; 6 eggs; 2 cups flour; 1 tsp vanilla; 4 tsp lemon extract; candied pineapples and cherries; chopped pecans; 2 tbs flour; 1/4 cup margarine; 1 1/2 cups sugar; 1/2 cup lemon juice; 1/2 tbs lemon rind

Photo: kinwart (CC BY 2.0)

A lemon-flavored pound cake studded with candied pineapple, cherries, and pecans, finished with a warm lemon glaze that is drizzled into holes poked in the cake and soaked in.

Directions

Cream together sugar and margarine, add eggs. Add flour and flavorings and mix thoroughly, add fruits and cuts (that have been dredged in flour). Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour.
For glaze heat all ingredients until sugar melts, make holes in cake and drizzle on top and let soak in.

Cream together the sugar and margarine, then add the eggs.
Add the flour and flavorings (vanilla and lemon extract) and mix thoroughly.
Add the candied pineapples, cherries, and chopped pecans that have been dredged in the 2 tablespoons flour.
Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour.
Make the glaze: heat all the glaze ingredients (margarine, sugar, lemon juice, and lemon rind) until the sugar melts.
Make holes in the cake, drizzle the glaze on top, and let it soak in.

Goes well with

German Nut Cake

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