lemon cake

Mission Viejo, CA
Updated on Jan 25, 2012

This one is from Cooking the Costco Way.

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Ingredients

  • - 1 3/4 cup sugar, divided
  • - 1 cup butter
  • - 2 large eggs
  • - 2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • - 2 1/2 cups flour
  • - 1 tsp. baking powder
  • - 1/2 tsp. salt
  • - 1 tsp. baking soda
  • - 1 cup buttermilk
  • - grated peel and juice of 3 lemons
  • - 2 tbsp. poppy seeds

How To Make lemon cake

  • Step 1
    Preheat oven to 350
  • Step 2
    In mixing bowl, cream 1 cup sugar and butter. Blend in eggs sand vanilla.
  • Step 3
    In another bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt. Stir into batter
  • Step 4
    Stir baking soda into buttermilk and add to batter.
  • Step 5
    Fold in grated lemon peel and poppy seeds,.
  • Step 6
    Pour batter into a greased Bundt pan. Bake for 40 to 50 minutes or til cake is golden brown and has a crevice in the middle
  • Step 7
    Meanwhile, mix lemon juice (about 1 cup) and 3/4 cup sugar in pan and simmer over low heat til sugar dissolves.
  • Step 8
    When cake is done, let stand for 5 minutes, then drizzle sweetened lemon juice slowly over the top til it’s all absorbed. Makes 10 servings.

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