Mom's Lemon Buttermilk Cake
Ready In: 1 hr 23 mins
Serves: 16
Yields: 1 Large Tube Cake
Ingredients
CAKE
- 1 cup shortening
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 tablespoons lemon extract
- 2 5⁄8 cups flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup buttermilk
GLAZE
- 2 1⁄2 cups powdered sugar
- 5 tablespoons orange juice
- 5 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
Directions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour a large tube pan (doesn't have to be the type with removable bottom).
- Cream together shortening and sugar, beat in eggs and lemon extract.
- Sift together flour, 1/2 tsp salt, baking soda, and baking powder; beat into creamed mixture.
- Stir in buttermilk.
- Bake at 325 degrees for 60 minutes.
- While cake is cooking, mix together glaze ingredients.
- After 60 minutes cooking time, remove cake from oven. Immediately pour glaze over top of cake and return to oven for 3 minutes.
- Cool for 8 minutes, then remove from pan by inverting onto a platter.
- Fully cool before slicing. Best prepared several hours ahead (or even a day ahead), then served at room temperature.
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