Stacey's Lemon Cake
This cake is moist, tangy and delicious! You will still taste the tang of the lemons on your tongue after you have eaten the cake! This recipe is a variation of the 1-2-3-4 Cake IV recipe found here on CC
Stacey’s Lemon Cake
Ingredients
- Ingredients for the Cake:
- 2 ½ cups + 2 Tbsps all-purpose flour
- 6 Tbsps cornstarch
- 3 tsps baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 8 ounces margarine/butter
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs, separated
- 6 Tbsps freshly grated lemon zest
- 1 ½ cups buttermilk
- 2 tsps lemon extract
- 4 Tbsps lemon juice
Ingredients for the Syrup:
- 8 Tbsps lemon juice
- 8 Tbsps sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325ºF. Grease and flour pans.
- Sift and combine all-purpose flour, cornstarch, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
- Cream margarine/butter and sugar.
- Add egg yolks one at a time to the creamed mixture. Add lemon zest.
- Combine the lemon juice, lemon essence and buttermilk in a large measuring cup.
- Alternately add the dry ingredients and the buttermilk mixture to the creamed egg mixture, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients.
- In a CLEAN mixing bowl, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form (but not dry).
- Gently fold egg whites into the cake batter using a wooden spoon or plastic spatula.
- Pour batter into prepared pans and bake until done.
- Remove cakes from the oven and set aside to cool for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, combine ingredients for syrup in small saucepan, cooking over low heat until sugar is dissolved.
- While the cakes are still in the pan, poke holes in the top of the cakes. Spoon lemon syrup over cakes. (The amount of syrup used is a matter of personal preference.)
- Allow cakes to cool completely before decorating or freezing.
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