Desserts
Easy Lemon Orange Cake
Lemon Orange Cake is light, tasty, and easy — made with ingredients you likely already have at home. Lemon zest gives the cake a lovely aroma and delicious flavor. Give it a try.
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Lemon Orange Cake... who doesn't love it! Enjoy it with tea — it's truly delicious.
Ingredients
- 4 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 tablespoons plain yogurt
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- a pinch of vanilla
- a pinch of salt
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- 2 tablespoons lemon and orange zest
- 1 1/2 cups orange juice
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour + 1 tablespoon orange zest
- For more of Rania's delicious cakes see Qudrat Qader Cake
Method
- Whisk the eggs with the vanilla well, then add the sugar and continue whisking until the mixture is pale and the sugar has completely dissolved.
- Add the yogurt and continue whisking, then add the oil and whisk, then add the orange juice and orange zest and whisk.
- In another bowl, sift the flour and mix it with 1 tablespoon orange zest and the baking powder, then add this mixture to the egg mixture and fold gently or stir with a spoon from top to bottom.
- Grease the cake pan with butter and dust it with flour, pour the lemon-orange cake batter into it, and place it on the oven rack in a preheated oven at medium temperature for 25 minutes or according to your oven.Timers: 25 min
- Let it cool at room temperature before serving.
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- For more of Rania's delicious cakes, here is the 'Qudrat Qader' cake.
Notes and serving ideas
- Qudrat Qader Cake






