Lemon cake
A perfectly lemony cake
You can leave the raw batter in the mould, in the fridge over night and cook it the next day without a problem.
To make sure your cake has a nice clean break in the middle, add a small line of soft butter vertically before cooking it.
Ingredients
Recipe for 42Lemon Cake - Virtual Workshop Version
Lemon syrup (glaze)
Preparation time: 45 min
Preheat your Oven at 410 °F
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Lemon Cake
Whisk the soft butter until it thickens.
In another bowl, whisk the egg yolks with the sugar. Add the lemon zest, the vanilla and the poppy seeds. Add the warm milk to the egg yolk mixture and gently mix.
Mix the two previous mixtures gently with a rubber spatula.
Heavily whisk the egg whites until very thick, strengthen it by adding the sugar and whisking for another minute. The egg whites need to be thick enough to defy gravity.
Add the flour and baking powder to the butter and egg yolk mixture, gently mix.
Finish by adding the beaten egg whites to your other mixture by gently folding it in.
Butter and flour the mould and fill it to 3/4 height.
Bake for 15 minutes at 410F then for another 20 minutes at 365F.
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Lemon glaze
Boil the water with the sugar. (Syrup). Cool down in fridge.
Add in the powdered sugar and the lemon juice in the cold syrup.
Glaze the cake when you take it out of the oven 2 or 3 times. Let it temper, then enjoy !
You can leave the raw batter in the mould, in the fridge over night and cook it the next day without a problem.
To make sure your cake has a nice clean break in the middle, add a small line of soft butter vertically before cooking it.