Spicy Lemon Cake

Spicy Lemon Cake

by Lee Warren 2 years ago
3 (1)
50 minutes
403.3 kcal
53.8 g carbs
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Description

Mildly sweet but spicy and aromatic, it's my own personal recipe for the perfect autumn cake and delicious sidekick of my afternoon coffee. Can't stop baking since I came up with this bad boy!

Ingredients
  • 1 ½ cups white sugar
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 lemon, zested and juiced
  • 3 cups cake flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 pinch ground ginger, or to taste
  • ½ cup milk, divided
  • ½ cup whisky
Directions
  1. 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter a cake pan.
  2. 2. Beat sugar and butter together in a bowl using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy; add eggs and beat on medium speed for 1 minute. Mix lemon zest into creamed butter mixture.
  3. 3. Sift cake flour into a separate bowl. Add baking powder, salt, and ginger; stir. Beat 1/3 of the flour mixture into the creamed butter mixture on low speed until flour mixture is completely incorporated, about 1 minute.
  4. 4. Stir lemon juice and 2 tablespoons milk into flour-butter mixture; mix on low speed until completely incorporated. Stir the remaining milk and whisky, alternating with the flour mixture, into the flour-butter mixture until batter is well mixed. Scrape batter into the prepared cake pan.
  5. 5. Bake in the preheated oven until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean, about 50 minutes.
Nutrition Facts
serving: 12 servings
calories: 403.3 kcal
carbohydrates: 53.8 g
protein: 4.5 g
saturated fat: 10.2 g
cholesterol: 72.5 mg
sodium: 219.7 mg
fiber: 0.6 g
sugar: 25.7 g