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Lemon Frosted Lemon Cake

A delicious and tangy lemon cake. Nice for those family occassions. Will keep for several days in an airtight container.

Ingredients

Serves: Makes one 23cm (9") cake

For the lemon cake:

  • 225g unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 1 cup granulated white sugar
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
  • zest of 1 large lemon
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 2 tsps baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/4 cup (60 ml) fresh lemon juice

For the lemon frosting:

  • 1 cup icing sugar, sifted
  • 2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice

Method

Lemon Cake:

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C with rack in centre of oven.
  2. Oil or Butter a 9” cake pan.
  3. Beat butter and sugar until light, fluffy and pale in colour. Use of electric mixer is preferred but can be done manually.
  4. Add each egg mixing well in between. Beat in vanilla extract and lemon zest.
  5. Sift together flour, baking powder and salt then add to batter along with lemon juice. Mix only until incorporated.
  6. Pour batter into pan, smoothing the top.
  7. Bake about 40 – 45 minutes and place on wire rack to cool.

Lemon Frosting:

  1. Place icing sugar in a bowl and combine with the lemon juice.
  2. Drizzle over cooled cake so the frosting drips down the side.
  3. Let the icing set before covering.

Labels: cake,, lemon,, icing-sugar

Inserted: 2010-06-19 12:29 (1 year, 8 months ago)