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Lemon Cake Recipe

Lemon Cake Recipe

2020-09-08
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Learn how to make the best lemon cake! This lemon cake is soft, moist with gentle lemony flavour and topped with lemon glaze. This lemon pound cake is made with basic ingredients and no special techniques required to make it. If you like loaf cakes you definitely should give this lemon loaf cake a try!
DIFFICULTY
Easy
YIELDS
10
PREP TIME
1¼ Hour
WORK TIME
15 Minutes
RECIPE CUISINE
World
INGREDIENTS FOR YIELDS

For the cake:

  • 3/4 cup (170g) Butter, softened
  • 4 Eggs
  • 1 cup (200g) Sugar
  • 3 tablespoons Lemon juice
  • 2 tablespoons Lemon zest
  • 1¾ cups (220g) All-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon Salt
  • 1½ teaspoons Baking powder
  • 2/3 cup (160g) Yogurt/sour cream
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract

For the glaze:

  • 1 cup (120g) Powdered sugar
  • 3 tablespoons Lemon juice
DIRECTIONS

  1. Preheat oven to 325ºF (163ºC). Line a 9X5-inch (23X12cm) loaf pan with parchment paper. Set aside.
  2. Make the cake: In a bowl, sift flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
  3. In a large bowl cream butter, sugar and lemon zest, until light and pale. Add eggs, one at the time, beating to combine after each addition. Add 1/2 of the flour mixture and stir just until combined. Add yogurt/sour cream, lemon juice, vanilla extract and stir until combined. Add the remaining flour and stir until combined.
  4. Pour the batter into prepared pan and bake for 50-60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
  5. Make the glaze: in a bowl, whisk powdered sugar and lemon juice until smooth. If the glze is too thick add more lemon juice, if the glaze is too thin, add more powdered sugar.
  6. When the cake is baked, pour the glaze over the cake and allow to cool slightly before serving.

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COMMENTS (6)
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    Tina Ooi
    9/13/2020

    Oh I love lemon cakes!!! This is so easy, thank you dear Chef 😘

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    The Cooking Foodie
    9/17/2020

    Glad you liked my recipe :)

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    Josephine Joe
    9/13/2020

    wonderful video and smooth song...so we can learn with peace heart dear.. thank you Chef ..

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    The Cooking Foodie
    9/17/2020

    Thank you :)

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    Tehila solway
    10/2/2020

    i made it and it came out AMAZING!!!! soft buttery and moist, i will definitely make this again!!

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    George
    10/9/2020

    I made this cake twice (it's heavy, so I believe it's a "pound" cake), and it is fantastic! Very dense and satisfying, but not dry; it was moist and delicious. One change I made was zesting an additional lemon and using that zest in the icing, which made it even more lemony. Cooking Foodie, can you tell us what the music was that was playing? Thanks for a great recipe!

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