I had a case of oranges, so I have been trying to find ways to use them. I squeezed a good amount of them into orange juice and immediately thought about orange pound cake.
But, pound cake has a lot of butter. I wanted to come up with a little bit lighter version. This recipe removes 3/4 of the butter, that’s like 75%!…and replaces it with greek yogurt, which helps make it moist.
You won’t miss the extra butter at all!
Pound cake is called pound cake because traditionally, it uses a whole pound of butter…ouch!
I couldn’t resist, I looked it up…a pound of butter is four sticks. Four sticks of butter has 3,240 calories!
That means you could literally gain just about one pound of fat eating a whole pound cake.
Well, you probably wouldn’t eat the whole cake, right?
(I may or may not have ever eaten a whole pound cake… several different times.)
But, you are going to WANT to eat this whole pound cake…and you can for 1/4 of the butter calories, since it only has one stick of butter.
It’s like diet pound cake.
You’re welcome. ,
| Servings | Prep Time |
| 10 slices | 10 mins |
| Cook Time |
| 55 mins |
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I had a case of oranges, and have been trying to find ways to use them. I squeezed a good amount of them into orange juice and immediately thought about orange pound cake. But, pound cake has a lot of butter. This version has only 1/4 the amount of butter than regular pound cake, so that you don't have to gain the pounds eating it.
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- 1/2 C butter
- 1 C granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest
- 2 tablespoons orange zest
- 1/2 C plain greek yogurt
- 1/4 C juice from fresh oranges
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1/2 C all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 C powdered sugar
- 1/4 C orange juice
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon orange zest
- 1 teaspoon orange extract
- Preheat oven to 350. In a mixing bowl, add the butter and sugar and beat until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, scraping the sides occasionally. Add the lemon zest, the orange zest, the yogurt, the orange juice and the vanilla. Mix well.
- Whisk the dry ingredients together and slowly add to the wet mixture and mix well. Transfer the batter to a greased loaf pan. Bake for 50-60 mins, or when toothpick comes out clean. You want it moist, so don't over bake. Allow to cool. Run a knife around the outside of the cake and turn out onto a cooling rack.
- Mix the powdered sugar, orange juice, lemon juice, and orange zest until smooth. If you desire more of an orange flavor, add orange extract.
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