Lemon Cake

Fresh Lemon Cake topped with the most TASTEFUL lemon glaze

preparation time: 25 minutes | baking time: 45 minutes | level: easy

Hey there! I love to bake cakes. Hopefully you love cakes too!!! Today you can learn how to make my favorite Lemon Cake right from the scratch. I promise it’s very easy. Check out my step by step recipe. I can't wait to try a fluffy piece, so let’s start!

THE INGREDIENTS

4 eggs
250g flour
150g sugar
200g butter
2 tablespoons of lemon juice
1 pack of baking soda
a teaspoon of lemon zest
For the glaze: 300 g powdered sugar and 1 lemon

ALL SET? LET'S START!

STEP 1: Put the flour into a mixing bowl. | 250g flower

STEP 2: Add baking powder to the flour. | 1 pack of baking powder

STEP 3: Add a teaspoon of lemon zest.

STEP 4: Add butter. | 200g

STEP 5: Add sugar | 150 g

STEP 6: Mix the ingredients.

STEP 7: Add 4 eggs to the cake batter. Mix. | 4 eggs

This is what the batter should look like. Yummy, isn't it?

Put the dough into a cake pan and bake it in the preheated for approx. 45 minutes.

After 30 minutes cover the cake with some aluminum foil. The cake won't turn too dark.

Meanwhile focus on the glaze: The picture shows the ingredients that are needed.

Put 300 g powdered sugar into a bowl.

Now add the juice of a medium - sized lemon. Stir.

This is what it should look like.

Before we put the glaze on the cake, the cake needs to be taken out of the oven and cool down for 10 minutes.

Take a spoon and slowly pour the icing on the cake.

As soon as the glaze has set, you can enjoy a piece of lemon cake. I hope you will like it. I get hooked after just one bite.

English words I used:

teaspoon of lemon zest / ein Teelöffel Zitronenschale
powdered sugar / der Puderzucker
glaze / die Glasur
aluminium foil / die Aluminium Folie
baking powder / das Backpulver
oven / der Ofen
ingredients / die Zutaten
bowl / die Schüssel
lemon/ die Zitrone

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