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Lemon cake

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Ingredients for 1 servings:

  • 200 g butter
  • 200 g sugar
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • 60 g jelly (lemon jelly, alternatively orange marmalade)
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 eggs, including the yolk
  • 250 g flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 125 ml freshly squeezed lemon juice (from about 3 lemons)
  • 100 g powdered sugar

Instructions

Working time approx. 30 minutes; Total time approx. 30 minutes

Preheat electric oven to 175 degrees Celsius (350 degrees Fahrenheit). Grease a 30 cm loaf pan. Beat butter, sugar, salt, lemon jelly, eggs, and egg yolks until thick and fluffy. Combine flour and baking powder and fold in. Pour the batter into the pan. Bake in the oven at 175 degrees Celsius (Gas Mark 2) for about 50 minutes. Let the cake cool slightly in the pan. Prick the cake several times with a wooden skewer. Mix the lemon juice and powdered sugar and drizzle over the cake until all the liquid is absorbed. Let it rest for at least 1 hour. Remove from the oven and decorate if desired.

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Written by John Myers

Professional Chef with 29 years of industry experience at the highest levels. Restaurant owner. Beverage Director with experience creating world-class nationally recognized cocktail programs. Food writer with a distinctive Chef-driven voice and point of view.

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