Triple Citrus Black Pepper Pound Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- Triple Citrus Black Pepper Pound Cake
- Closely adapted from Cake Keeper Cakes, Lauren Chattman
- 1 1/2 cups (165 g) cake flour
- 3/4 t baking powder
- 1 â 1 1/2 t freshly ground black pepper (I erred on lower side)
- 1/4 t salt
- zest of one lemon
- zest of one lime
- zest of one orange, or a little less (you are aiming for equal amount of all 3âmy oranges were huge)
- 1 cups (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 4 large eggs, room temperature, likely beaten
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