Hibiscus Lemony Cake
Ready In: 55 mins
Serves: 20
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 1⁄2 cups milk, hot
- 2 lemons, zest cut into large strips and juice (1/3 cup juice)
- 1⁄3 cup dried hibiscus flowers
- 3 cups flour (lightly scooped not packed)
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3⁄4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- red food coloring (optional)
Icing
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 4 ounces unsweetened butter
- 3 -4 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 3 1⁄2 cups powdered sugar
- red food coloring (optional)
- berry jelly (optional)
- hibiscus jelly (optional)
Directions
- Steep the lemon zest and juice, hibiscus in the hot milk till cool. Place in the refrigerator for 6 hours. It will slightly curdle as if making buttermilk. It`s a good thing.
- Strain saving the zest using half for the cake and half for the icing. Mincing the zest fine.
- You can also use a couple of the hibiscus flowers that was soaked fine minced in both the cake and frosting.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Placing rack in middle of the oven.
- Spray 9x13 baking dish.
- In a bowl sift the flour, baking powder and salt.
- In a food processor pulse butter and 1/2 the reserved zest and 2 hibiscus flowers. Then press on and add the sugar through feed tube. Process till light and fluffy stopping 1/2 way through to wipe side down.
- Add one egg at a time till all combined.
- Pour in the flour mixture and process while pouring the milk mixture through the feed tube. If a pink cake is desired add a couple drops of red food coloring with the milk mixture.
- Bake 32 minutes.
- Icing:
- In a food processor pulse to blend cream cheese and butter. Run processor while adding the reserved minced lemon zest and 2 hibiscus flowers form the milk mixture.
- Add lemon juice and sugar blending till light and creamy. Chill till ready to ice cake.
- While cake is warm pierce holes throughout the cake. Spread a thin layer of jelly over cake,.
- Cool cake.
- Ice cake once cooled.
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