English Lemon Cake Recipes

LEMON CAKE FROM SCRATCH

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter and flour two 8-inch cake pans, tapping out excess flour.
• Whisk flour, lemon zest, salt, baking powder, and baking soda together in a bowl.
• Beat butter and sugar in a large bowl using an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat eggs and egg yolks, 1 at a time, into creamed butter mixture on low speed, beating well after each addition before adding the next. Beat lemon juice into butter mixture. Beat flour mixture, alternating with buttermilk, into butter mixture until batter is just combined. Divide batter between the prepared cake pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cake pulls away from sides of pan, 32 to 35 minutes. Cool cakes in pans for 10 minutes. Run a knife around the edges of pan and invert cake onto a wire rack to cool.

ENGLISH LEMON CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Grease a 9" x 5" loaf pan.
• Cream butter and sugar in large mixing bowl; add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Mix flour, baking powder and salt; add alternately with milk to the butter mixture.
• Pour batter into pan.
• Bake until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, about 45 minutes to one hour.
• Meanwhile make Lemon Glaze. Heat sugar, fresh lemon juice, and lemon zest until just boiling in a small saucepan.
• Pour glaze over cake immediately after removing cake from oven; cool in pan.