Recipe Category: Dessert
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Ingredients
- Serving Size : 1
- 1 cup butter – softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 eggs,large
- 3 cups flour,all-purpose – sifted
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 2 tablespoons lemon peel,grated
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice,fresh
- lemon icing:
- 1/4 cup butter – softened
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 1/2 tablespoons lemon peel,grated
- 1/4 cup lemon juice,fresh
Method
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- In a very large bowl, cream butter (or margarine) until very light; slowly add sugar until mixture is very light and fluffy.
- Beat in eggs one at a time.
- In another bowl, sift flour, baking soda and salt together.
- Add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk to butter mixture.
- Begin and end with flour.
- Mix in lemon peel and juice.
- Pour batter into greased and floured 10-inch tube or 12-inch bundt pan.
- Bake for 65-75 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Place pan on rack for 10 minutes to cool.
- Turn cake out of pan onto rack.
- Spread with as much lemon icing as the cake can absorb (about a third of the icing) Allow cake to cool completely then frost with remaining icing.
- ICING: Blend butter and sugar together in a medium bowl.
- Mix in peel and juice, 1 tablespoon at a time, until the frosting is of spreading consistency.
- If the entire amount of juice is used, the icing will be thin and possibly difficult to spread evenly, however a very tangy frosting greatly enhances the flavor of the cake.
- This cake was a second place winner at the Del Mar fair.
- Jo Anne Merrill.
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