Lemon Butter Cake

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Cake:
1 cube of butter, softened
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk
2 lemons, zested & juiced
1 teaspoon vanilla

Glaze:
1 lemon, zested & juiced
1 1/2 cup powdered sugar

Preheat oven to 350. In a mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Cream together butter and sugar for 3 minutes. Add eggs. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, soda and salt. In another separate bowl, combine milk, lemon juice, zest and vanilla. Add half of the wet ingredients to the butter sugar mixture, mix for 5 seconds, then add half of the dry and mix for 5 seconds. Repeat with second half, ending with dry ingredients. Pour batter into loaf pan.  Original recipe called for lining it with parchment, but greasing and flouring was just fine for me. Bake for 35-40 minutes until a cake tester comes out clean. For glaze, mix together powdered sugar and lemon juice until smooth. Pour over slightly warm cake. Top with lemon zest.

Holly's Notes:
Thanks to Pinterest, I found the original recipe here.  It is amazing.  Light and perfect on its own but divine with some vanilla ice cream.  I love that the cake is homemade and not from a mix.