Spiced Lemon Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
-
1 cake
- Serves:
- 8
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more for pan
- 1 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pan
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 3⁄4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest
- 6 tablespoons fresh lemon juice (from 2 lemons)
- 3⁄4 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 2 large eggs
- 1⁄2 cup sour cream
- 1 1⁄2 cups confectioners' sugar
directions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Butter and flour an 8-inch round cake pan.
- Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- Beat butter, granulated sugar, zest, and cardamom with a mixer on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy.
- Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
- 6. Beat in 3 tablespoons lemon juice.
- Reduce speed to medium-low; beat in flour mixture in 3 additions, alternating with sour cream, beginning and ending with flour.
- Pour batter into cake pan.
- Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 30 minutes.
- Turn out onto a wire rack. Let cool, top side up.
- Whisk confectioners' sugar with remaining 3 tablespoons lemon juice until smooth; pour over cooled cake.
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