Lemon Orange Sandkuchen – German Poundcake

This Lemon Orange Sandkuchen makes the perfect pound or coffee cake. So easy to make, it just needs 25 min of your time. Perfect for the traditional Kaffee and Kuchen table with friends and/or family. Happy Baking!

Ingredients Lemon Orange Sandkuchen

175 g butter, very soft
1 organic lemon and 1 orange
175g sugar
1 package vanilla sugar
orange flavoring
50 g ground almonds (almond flour)
4 eggs
1 dash salt
200 g flour
50 g cornstarch
1 heaped tsp baking powder
9 tbsp fresh pressed lemon juice
5 tbsp fresh pressed orange juice
2 tbsp white rum (optional) or rum flavoring
150 g powdered sugar
thin, fine peeled lemon stripes for decoration and/or lemon slices, mint leaves

Baking Instructions Lemon Orange Sandkuchen

– Grate lemon peel fine for making zest.
– Warm butter so it’s almost liquid. Combine with sugar, vanilla sugar and salt and mix until bubbly.
– Add lemon zest and orange flavoring, then eggs one after the other. Mix well until you get a creamy dough.

– Combine flour with starch and baking powder. Mix well. Add to the dough.
– Add 2 tbsp lemon and orange juice, and rum.
– Grease a loaf form 10 inches (content for 2 liter), dust with flour or layer with parchment paper.
– Fill in the dough. Bake in pre-heated oven 350 F for about 50 min. Cover cake after 30 min with parchment paper.

– Drizzle on top of cake 3 tbsp of each orange and lemon juice. Let cool off a bit.
– Release from form and let cool off.
– Mix powdered sugar with 4 tbsp lemon juice for the glaze.
–  Spread glaze evenly over the cake, and let dry.
– Dust with powdered sugar.