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Copycat Starbucks Ice Lemon Loaf

If you like lemon desserts, you are in for a real treat. This Copycat Starbucks Iced lemon Loaf recipe comes out moist, buttery and topped with a lemon glaze like no other. Give this easy recipe a go at it for a Copycat Starbucks Lemon Loaf. My version seriously tastes so close to the original Starbucks Lemon Loaf. 

Course Breakfast, brunch, Dessert, Late Night Snack, Snack
Cuisine American
Keyword Copycat Starbucks, lemon, lemon desserts, loaf cake, pound cake, Starbucks
Author Pam

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon fine sea or kosher salt
  • 3 large eggs, room temperature
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened, (1 stick)
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/3 cup sour cream or buttermilk
  • 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 3/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon pure lemon extract
  • 2 tablespoons lemon zest, no white pith
  • 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

Lemon Glaze

  • 1 cup or more if needed sifted powdered sugar
  • 1 teaspoon milk, cold water, or cream
  • 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
  • 1 small pinch fine sea or kosher salt

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray an 9 x 5 loaf pan with baking spray or grease and flour the pan. Set aside. In a large mixing bowl. Combine, softened butter and sugar. Whisk until fluffy, You can use a hand held blender or whisk. Add in buttermilk/sour cream, mix again. Continue with wet ingredients. Add one egg at a time. Mix after each egg. When all wet ingredients have been added. Scrape sides down of bowl. Set aside for a minute. In a medium bowl. Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Whisk together and gently pour dry into wet ingredients. Using a rubber spatula, fold wet into dry until completely incorporated. Scrape down to the bottom to make sure no dry ingredients are hiding. Try not to over mix. Some small lumps may still be present. That is fine. Bake for about 45 to 60 minutes. Check after 45 minutes. If you see the top is getting too dark. Place a sheet of foil loosely over the top of the cake. Check with a toothpick. Should come out clean or with some moist to dry crumbs but no batter. The top of the cake should be slightly firm and should spring back when gently touched. Take out and let cool in pan on a wire rack for at least 1 to 2 hours before inverting on to wire rack. The cake needs to be completely cooled before glazing. To glaze the cake, in a small bowl, mix the powdered sugar, salt, lemon juice, along with water, milk or cream. Use a small whisk or fork to desired thickness. Add more or less sugar or more lemon juice if needed. (If the glaze is still a bit too thin, try putting in freezer for 1 to 2 minutes, this will thicken up the glaze without having to add more sugar) Mix well then proceed to glaze the loaf. Place cake on wire rack or serving plate. Drizzle glaze over the whole top of the cake front to back. Let the glaze drip down the sides. keep going until you have the amount you want over the top of the cake. Let set up. Enjoy!