The Best Damn Lemon Cake
- Reviews 2
Ready In: 1 hr 30 mins
Yields: 1 loaf
Ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup ground almonds
- 1 1⁄2 cups sifted flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 lb butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1⁄2 cup milk
- 1 ounce lemon extract
- 2 large lemons, zest of
- 1⁄3 cup sugar, plus
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1⁄3 cup fresh lemon juice
Directions
- Adjust rack to bottom 1/3 of oven and preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Butter a loaf pan with a 6 cup capacity and dust with cookie of plain bread crumbs.
- Sift together flourand baking powder.
- Melt butter.
- In a mixing bowl combine butter and sugar.
- Add eggs one at a time on low speed.
- Then add sifted dry ingredients and milk alternately.
- Mix in lemon extract.
- Fold in almonds and lemon zest.
- Pour into prepared pan.
- Bake for 65-75 minutes.
- Two or three minutes before the cake is done, prepare the glaze.
- Heat juice and sugar until the sugar is melted, but do not boil.
- Remove the cake from the oven and cool for three minutes.
- Then glaze the cake in the pan by brushing the hot liquid over the cake, letting it soak in slowly- this should take about five minutes.
- Cool and turn cake out onto a rack.
- Store wrapped in wax paper AND aluminum foil.
- Best served after a few days.
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