Lemon Cake Spam

[avrelia]

I've got a letter inviting me to a recipe exchange, so I've used this opportunity to send my favorite recipe of a lemon cake to someone. (if your got my email-invitation, that's it. I am participating in chain letters the first time ever.)

Then, I decided to share this recipe with everyone - because I really love it.

I hope I didn't do a too crappy job with translation, and the recipe is easy to understand.



Lemon Cake

2 cups of flour
1 cup of sugar
200 g of butter (1/2 pound (2 sticks))
1 lemon
1 teaspoon of turmeric
4 eggs
1 teaspoon of baking soda
vanilla sugar
3-5 teaspoons of lemon juice,
6 teaspoons of icing sugar

Grate the zest, and squeeze the juice out of a lemon. Beat together softened butter with sugar, vanilla sugar, turmeric, egg yolks, lemon juice and zest. Add flour mixed with baking soda.

Whisk egg whites and add them carefully into the batter.

Preheat oven to t=180°С (350°F). Grease the cooking forms with butter or margarine, sprinkle them with flour, bread crumbs or crushed nuts, and pour the batter into it. Put the forms into the preheated oven and bake for 30 min or up to 1.5 hours, depending on the forms – until ready.

Mix 3-5 teaspoons of lemon juice with icing sugar and drizzle the warm cake with it.


Edited to add temperature in F and weight in pounds.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/automatedalice_/]

i was thinking this was a "slow oven" cake, which didn't make sense with the eggwhites, until i realised that it's 180°С, rather than F. =P that's 350°F & 1/2 pound (2 sticks) of butter for the yanks. ;)

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

Yes, I translated the recipe from Russin, so I wasn't sure about teerminology, and all the measurements are in metric system. I will add to the post your number to avooid confusion, thanks!

The cake is really quite nice and easy. I love it.

[gobi-rex.livejournal.com]

I should try this, but after the Xmas mayhem. Thanks for sharing.

I love your troika icon, btw.

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

if you want the original (with the picture) it is here (http://www.good-cook.ru/tort/tort_139.shtml). It is great cake!

Thanks, I couldn't find a holiday icon I'd love, so I made one out of a new-year card found somewhere in "the internets." ;)

you icon is fascinating as well.

[gobi-rex.livejournal.com]

I made my icon from a picture I found on www.art.com, they sell really cool posters. I just steal the pictures Yes, the "internets" come very handy.

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

Yes, the "internets" come very handy.

What would we do without them?