Lemon Meringue Cake Recipe

How to make it

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• Preheat oven to 350.
• Sift flour, baking powder and salt into a medium bowl then set aside.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer beat sugar and 1/2 cup butter until creamy.
• Crack eggs into a small dish and add vanilla.
• Add eggs to the butter mixture 1 at a time scraping down the inside of the bowl as needed.
• Beat in flour mixture and milk in alternating batches starting and ending with the flour and making sure each addition is fully incorporated before adding the next.
• Stir zest into batter.
• Butter and flour a loaf pan and pour in batter.
• Bake 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Cool 5 minutes then invert cake onto a rack.
• Remove pan and let cake cool to room temperature.
• Meanwhile make lemon curd:
• In a heavy-bottomed medium saucepan melt butter with lemon juice over high heat.
• In a medium bowl whisk together sugar and yolks.
• Slowly whisk hot lemon butter into egg mixture 1/2 cup at a time.
• Pour mixture back into saucepan and cook whisking constantly until the mixture is very thick.
• Transfer lemon curd to a glass or plastic container.
• Cover with plastic wrap pressing it onto the top of the curd to prevent a skin from forming.
• Chill until cold at least 1 hour and up to 2 days.
• Make meringue:
• Whisk whites and sugar together in a medium metal bowl.
• Set over a saucepan of simmering water and whisk constantly until mixture is warm to the touch and sugar feels dissolved about 2 minutes.
• Scrape whites into the bowl of a stand mixer.
• Whisk on high speed until light and fluffy and the side of the bowl feels cool to the touch about 2 minutes.
• Assemble cake:
• Preheat broiler positioning oven rack about 7" from the heat source.
• Using a serrated knife, trim brown exterior from sides and top of cake. Slice cake horizontally into 3 even layers.
• Place 1 cake layer on a rimmed baking sheet.
• Spread with half the lemon curd mixture.
• Repeat with second layer and remaining curd.
• Top with last layer.
• Using a spatula cover the entire cake with the meringue.
• Broil cake just until top is golden brown being careful not to burn it, about 1 minute.
• Using 2 large pancake turners sliding 1 under each side of cake, transfer cake to a serving plate.