Monday 25 May 2009

French Lemon Cake


This is the recipe I used to make my french lemon cake, I was surprised as I wasn't sure it had enough moisture in it when I started, but it comes together really well and has a rather balanced lemon flavour.

Ingredients:
2 eggs
2 teaspoons of grated lemon rind
40g butter at room temperature
1/3 cup of milk
1 cup caster sugar
1 1/2 cups of self raising flour
extra 1/2 cup of caster sugar
1/2 cup of lemon juice

Preheat oven to 180 celcius and grease and dust with flour a deep 20cm wide round cake pan (I used the fluted pan because it is the highest round tin I have, and it worked no problem). Beat eggs, lemon, rind, butter, milk, sugar and flour for 3 minutes. Place in tin and cook for approximately 50 minutes (this may be a little quicker). Remove from the oven and leave the cake in the tin and pour combined lemon juice and extra caster sugar onto the bottom of the cake. Stand the cake for a further 10 minutes and then invert.
Dust the cake with icing sugar if you like.

5 comments:

forgingahead said...
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Eloise said...

Lemon cake is my favorite cake! I usually use the Edmonds Cookbook recipe (w/ a sugar lemon coulis on top), but will have to try this one out. It looks delicious! xxx

It followed me home said...

YUM!!!
I'm going to the pantry to check if I have all those ingredients! Thanks!

fifi said...

thankyou so much! we have to bake something to bring into work on monday and this will be it! thanks for taking the time to post it.

Martina said...

This will have to be one of the first recipes I try when I am finished my exams etc! Yum :)