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Sour Lemon Cake with Sauce

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Sour Lemon Cake with Sauce

A homemade, tried-and-true sour lemon cake with a super easy, delicious, and refreshing sauce. Serve it cold, or at least chill the sauce. Enjoy!

Total time110 min
Prep15 min
Cook95 min
Yield8 servings
DifficultyMedium
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DessertsInternationalVegetarianNut freeMediumLong cook

Recipe story

Sour lemon cake... a successful homemade recipe. This cake is light and has a refreshing aroma.

Ingredients

  • 250 grams butter
  • 200 grams sugar
  • Zest of 1 sour lemon
  • 4 eggs
  • Juice of 1 sour lemon
  • 50 grams cornstarch
  • 200 grams flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • Pinch of salt
  • Sauce:
  • 150 grams powdered sugar
  • 4 tablespoons lemon juice

Method

  1. Beat the butter at room temperature with the lemon zest very well until you get a creamy mixture.
  2. Add the sugar, lemon juice, and eggs, and beat well until the mixture becomes light and thick.
  3. Gradually add the flour, cornstarch, baking powder, and a pinch of salt while beating.
  4. Butter the pan, dust it with flour, and pour in the sour lemon cake batter.
  5. Place it in the preheated oven on the middle rack and bake for 50 minutes at 170°C, checking as it bakes.
    Timers: 50 min
  6. Remove from the oven, invert onto a serving plate, and cover with a clean cloth for ten minutes.
  7. Pierce the top of the cake in many places with a small wooden skewer and drizzle it with 1 tablespoon of lemon juice.
  8. Prepare the sauce on the side: mix the powdered sugar with the lemon juice until the sugar dissolves and the sauce turns white, then spread the sauce over the top of the cake.
  9. Place it in the refrigerator until chilled, then serve.
  10. This delicious dessert is from a friend and cook on the Shou Tabkhin Today site.
  11. Watfa Rahhal
  12. Click on Watfa's name to visit her profile on our site.
  13. To make lemon sour cupcakes click on the link

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