Recipe

Festive Lemon Cake Baked As A Gift Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Vindee / All my dishes 2 years ago This was a gift for a friend, and looked very pretty when dressed up. Convenient to gift too, since it's already in a 'case'! This time I used something very interesting...'Lemon Sugar' that my friend got from Ukraine. They have these satchets of lem... More Prep:30m Cook:75m Servings:16	Vindee
	delicious foodasagift simple tangy zesty sweet impressive festive

Does this look good? Yeah! / Nope

Fans

greekgirrr

Ingredients

Butter – ½ cup/100gms

Eggs – 3

Sugar – 1 ¼ cups

Flour – 1 ½ cups

Baking powder – 1 tsp

Baking Soda – ¼ tsp

Salt – ¼ tsp

Yogurt – 4 tbsp / thick

Cream – 2 tbsp / 25 % fat

Juice of 1/2 lemon

Rind of 2 lemons

Lemon Sugar -1 tsp (optional)

Lemon Extract - 1 tsp

Orange Essence – 1 tsp

Vanilla Essence – 1 tsp

Lemon Syrup:

Water – ¼ cup

Powdered Sugar – ½ cup

Lemon Sugar - 1 tsp (or juice of 2 lemons)

Orange Extract – ½ tsp (optional)

Directions

Preheat oven to 180 deg C. Grease and dust 2 loaf foil (7-8 inches) cases well.

Sift the dry ingredients together. Keep aside.

Mix the yogurt + cream+ juice of 1/2 lemon in a small bowl. Keep aside.

Beat the butter + sugar well until light and fluffy.

Beat in the eggs 1 by 1, scraping the sides down after each addition.

Beat in the lemon rind + lemon extract + orange essence + vanilla essence + lemon sugar.

On low speed, beat in the dry ingredients alternatively with yogurt and cream mix…in 3 goes.

If you like, you can mix a deeper yellow colour in 1/3 of the batter to get a marble effect.

Divide the batter into the foil cases, alternating with the deeper coloured batter, if using, and level out.

Bake for approximately 60 mins, or till the tester comes out clean.

Leave on racks in foil cases.

Meanwhile, while the cake is baking, heat the water + sugar + extract+ lemon sugar and make syrup.

Should taste nice and tangy…like a concentrate.

Poke the cakes gently with a skewer. Pour the warm syrup over the hot cake.

Drizzle some thicker lemon icing over the top & decorate with sprinkles etc. ( I used basil leaves too dredged in icing sugar...since I didn't have mint leaves)

Allow to cool completely, and then wrap in cellophane paper and ribbons to make a pretty gift.

Recent Gawkers

anetamar

thefulto

cherrybo

conner90

greekgir

leonora5

kendi25

jabec

Not quite what you're looking for? See more Dessert / Cakes

Or see more just like this

Comments

rosemaryblue 2 years ago said:
Great idea! And a great recipe!

danerin2 2 years ago said:
What a wonderful recipe. I'll try making this for my Mom first - she LOVES lemon. Thanks so much!

ahmed1 2 years ago said:
Real hard work..I liked the lemon syrup.Thanks for sharing..

vindee 2 years ago said:
Thank you folks for your great comments. For those who find it easier/convenient, you can subs the yogurt+ cream with an equal amount of sour cream...Cheers