Best Lemon Cake
June 20, 2020
My favourite and Best Lemon Cake Recipe is what i love as a snack with my tea in my tea time break, this cake is moiset and fluffy with a perfect lemon flavour, make your mouth watering and you can’t enough from one peice.
The lovely about this recipe is that the ingredients is available at most of our homes, just prepare it and bake and you’ll have the best Lemon Cake Recipe. This recipe is perfect for your christmas time or for your holidays. The taste is so delicious and i’m sure everyone will love it. Also, i added orange zest to my cake, it gave a lovely rich and tasty flavour but this step is optional if you have some orange with hand add it.
What Ingredients you’ll need to make best Lemon Cake?
- Eggs
- Sugar
- Vanilla extract
- Lemon
- Yogurt,
- Vegetable oil,
- Flour
- Baking powder
- Baking soda
- Pinch of Salt
Tips for a successful fluffy cake
- Preheat oven before baking your cake.
- Don’t open your oven while baking the cake.
- Mix eggs with sugar and vanilla until the mixture light in color for 5 minutes.
- Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Sifting the dried ingredients make the cake more fluffy.
- Take only the yellow color of lemon zest, the white will make your cake bitter.
- Prepare cake mold, by grease it with butter and dust with flour or cover it with parchment paper.
- When out of oven, remove from mold and remove parchment paper and let the cake cool on a wire rack before serve it.
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Lemon Cake
Yield:
12 pieces
Prep Time:
15 minutes
Cook Time:
55 minutes
Total Time:
1 hour 10 minutes
Ingredients
- 4 eggs
- 1 and 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract or 1/2 tsp vanilla powder
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 125g yogurt,
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil,
- 2 and 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- pinch of salt
- 1 tsp lemon zest
- 1 tsp orange zest (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven on 180°C , prepare the cake mold by grease it with butter and cover with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl mix eggs with sugar and vanilla until the mixture light in color, and suga dissolve in eggs. Add lemon juice, yogurt and oil. Give the batter a quick mix.
- In another bowl sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- Add lemon zest and orange zest to flour or take one tbsp of the flour and cover the zest with.
- To the eggs mixture, add the half dry ingredients and whisk until well combined, then add the remain dry ingredients, whisk all together until you have a smooth cake batter.
- With a spatula give cake mixture a quick mix to ensure there no lumps or anything left over bottom.
- Pour cake batter in your prepared cake mold.
- Bake in a preheated oven 180°C for 55 minutes.
- When out of oven, remove from mold and remove parchment paper and let the cake cool on a wire rack before serve it.
- Enjoy!