Desserts
ChefLoubna Fawaz
Moist Tart Lemon Cake
This moist, tart lemon cake melts in your mouth and leaves a bright, distinctive lemon flavor. You can control the cake's thickness by choosing the pan size.
Moist, tart lemon cake soaked in lemon syrup... a new and very tasty recipe!
Ingredients
Start here, then move straight into the method.
- 2 eggs
- 3/4 cup fine sugar
- 150 g soft butter
- zest of 1 lemon
- 1 1/4 cups white cake flour
- 1/2 cup milk
- powdered sugar for dusting
- Tangy lemon sauce
- 140 g powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
- Do not boil the lemon juice; just stir the mixture until the sugar has completely dissolved.
- Using a thin knife or fork, carefully make a few holes in the warm cake.
- Spoon some of the lemon sauce over the warm cake so it soaks into it.
- Video: How to make low-fat date cake
- How to make a low-calorie banana cake
Method
Follow the cooking sequence without leaving the page.
- Preheat the oven to 180°C and prepare the pan or mold for the lemon cake: grease it with butter or tahini and line it with parchment paper.
- Beat the eggs with the caster sugar and butter until smooth and light.
- Add the lemon zest and continue beating.
- Gradually add the flour and continue mixing until the ingredients are well combined.
- Finally add the milk, mix the batter, then pour it into the prepared oven pan.
- Bake the cake in the preheated oven for about 45 minutes or until cooked through and golden — timing may vary with oven strength. Remove from oven and set aside to cool slightly.Timers: 45 min
- Meanwhile, prepare the lemon sauce: put the icing sugar and lemon juice in a small saucepan over low heat.
- Do not boil the lemon juice; just stir the mixture gently until the sugar fully dissolves.
- Using a thin knife or a fork, carefully make a few holes in the warm cake.
- Spoon the lemon sauce over the warm cake so the cake soaks up the syrup.
- When the cake has cooled completely, transfer it to a serving plate, cut into even pieces, and dust with icing sugar to serve.
Recipe tags
DessertsInternationalVegetarianNut free
Notes and serving ideas
- Video: Low-fat date cake recipe
- Low-calorie banana cake recipe (video)
