Recipes
Lemon Cake with a Sugar Crust
Make a delicious lemon cake with a sugar crust for your afternoon snack!
Ingredients
- •4 eggs (220 g)
- •3 cups all-purpose flour (480 g)
- •1/4 cup lemon juice (60 ml)
- •1 1/2 cups sugar (300 g)
- •1 cup milk (240 ml)
- •1/2 cup oil (120 ml)
- •Zest of 2 lemons
- •1 tablespoon baking powder (15 g)
- •2 cups powdered sugar (250 g)
- •Juice of 2 lemons
- •Lemon zest
Instructions
- 1
Place the sugar and lemon zest in a bowl. Mix well with your hands, rubbing the zest into the sugar with your fingertips to release all its aroma.
- 2
Add the eggs and beat lightly with a fork or whisk until doubled in volume. Add the milk, oil and lemon juice and mix.
- 3
Add the flour and mix until smooth.
- 4
Add the baking powder and mix well.
- 5
Pour the batter into a greased and floured cake pan and bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for approximately 35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- 6
Let the cake cool, then prepare the icing. Gradually add the lemon juice to the powdered sugar, stirring well after each addition, until you have a thick, creamy icing.
- 7
Spread the icing over the cake and decorate with lemon zest.