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Showing posts with label lemon cake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lemon cake. Show all posts

Friday, November 20, 2020

Pretty

It's OK to strive for perfection but I have learned through the years that it is rarely attainable and sometimes not even at all important! I didn't even strive for it today because I knew it wouldn't matter. It didn't! I found the recipe when looking to use up my frozen lemon juice and thought I'd try it. Since there really wasn't a pan size listed and the picture showed it in a bundt pan, I used my 11" x 14" pan.  Yep! It became a beautiful sheet cake!

After I sliced it into 6 pieces I just stacked three with icing in between and called the project a success. Got two 4" square cakes now! They're not pretty. We don't care! The photos were taken before tasting but I can verify that the lemon three layer cake was light in texture and really full of flavor and very satisfying.

RECIPE

1 1/2 C flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 C sugar
2 large eggs
zest one lemon
2 T. lemon juice
2/3 C vegetable oil
2/3 C milk

  • Preheat oven 350°
  • Grease and flour pan - 9"cake pan will do fine (I used large cake pan and had resulting cake like a sheet cake)
  • Whisk the flour and baking powder together in small bowl.
  • Beat eggs and sugar in large bowl on low or medium, not high.
  • Add zest, juice, oil and milk until combined and then add flour mixture and beat on low until smooth.
  • Pour into pan and bake approximately 35-40 minutes.
  • Toothpick should come out clean.
  • Cool in pan then remove to dish. Ice or not, you choose. A dusting of confectioner's powder would do. 


Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Aftermath Mar 21, 2017

Reality is setting in...
I'll bake a cake and it will go away!
please click on image to taste cake

One minute 40 second slide show below

Monday, July 27, 2015

A Mixed Bag

Who knew there would be so many valves, switches, piping???
The Generac man is coming to fire her up today. That will validate the warranty and cover all components for two years.
I "might" offer him a slice of my freshly baked lemon cake.
All birds roost here
The Bald Eagle flies over and the Great Blue Heron goes fishing this morning.
The Joe Pye Weed at the lake's edge is blooming very early this year. It was late August in 2014 before it opened in its full splendor.
And the wet grass is full of bees pollenating small flowers.
Sometimes I forget to look both high and low! Straight ahead and left and right views aren't all there are. I'm surrounded by nature's wild beauty.
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Joe Pye Weed Info. LINK