Sour Lemon Cake with Glaze
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
-
1 nine inch cake
ingredients
-
Cake
- 226.79 g unsalted butter
- 354.88 ml sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 709.77 ml flour
- 9.85 ml baking powder
- 2.46 ml salt
- 236.59 ml milk
- 2 grated lemons, zest of
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Glaze
- 78.78 ml cognac
- 78.78 ml fresh lemon juice
- 118.29 ml sugar
directions
- Preheat the oven to 350F degrees.
- Butter and flour a 9" round cake pan.
- Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the eggs, one at a time.
- Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt.
- Add to the butter mixture, alternating with the milk.
- Stir in the lemon zest.
- Pour the batter into the pan.
- Bake for 1 hour, or until a cake tester comes out clean.
- Remove from oven and allow to sit in the pan for a few minutes.
- Turn the cake out onto a rack.
- Stir the glaze ingredients together until the sugar dissolves and brush them onto the cake.
- Allow to cool.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Miss Erin C.
Minneapolis, Missouri
Mom to 4 boys, city dweller, eater, craft beer enthusiast, original Recipezaar member.