Lemon Whiskey Cake
From pat2me 16 years ago
- 55 minutes to make
- Serves 8
A no frosting required, delicately flavored cake. Place a paper doily over the tiop and sift some confectioner's sugar on to finish From The Irish Heritage Cookbook
Ingredients
- Zest of 1 lemon shopping list
- 1/4 C Irish whiskey, Jamesons or Bushmill if you have it shopping list
- 1 1/2 sticks of butter, room temperature shopping list
- 3/4 c sugar shopping list
- 3 eggs, beaten shopping list
- 2 C flour shopping list
- pinch of salt shopping list
- 3/4 C almonds, ground shopping list
How to make it
- Day Before - Zest lemon and cut into julienne strips, soak overnight in the whiskey
- Next Day - Preheat oven to 350 and generously grease a 9 inch round pan
- In a medium bowl, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy
- whisk in eggs
- Sift in flour and salt and stir to blend
- Fold in the almonds
- Strain the whiskey, discarding zest and stir the whiskey into the batter
- Pour into the prepared pan and bake until cake is golden and a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about an hour.
- Cool on wire rack, dust with confectioner's sugar to serve.
The Rating
Reviewed by 5 people-
I love cakes that do not require icing! YUM!
sunny
in Portland loved it
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pat, this is my kind of cake! jett's right...It could be named "Hot Toddy" cake. Thanks!
rml
in loved it
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Oh yeah....this works for me :) TY, Pat2Me :)
kukla
in Barrie, Ontario loved it
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