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Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 2 3/4 cups sugar
• 6 large eggs
• 3 cups cake flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• Zest from 2 lemons
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Directions:

Grease/flour/spray a 10-inch tube pan. Set aside.

With a hand mixer or stand mixer, cream together butter and cream cheese. Add sugar gradually and mix until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time. Next, add cake flour and salt. Mix; then, add vanilla and lemon zest.

Pour batter into pan. Bake for about an hour and fifteen minutes or until done. Cool the cake in the pan for about 10 minutes, then finish cooling on a wire rack.

Once cool, combine the powdered sugar and lemon juice in a small bowl. You may have to add more powdered sugar or lemon juice to get the proper consistency (thick, but pourable). Once mixed, add the vanilla extract and drizzle over the cake.

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Substitutions:

I used 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour.

Recipe adapted from Southern Living Magazine.