Lemon cake - recipe with photos

If you do not like shrill sweet desserts, then you need to taste a lemon cake. This is an amazing combination of air biscuit, delicate stuffing with citrate cream and lemon zest. In this article we will tell you a step-by-step recipe for the preparation of this confectionery masterpiece.

1

How to cook the dough for lemon cake?

The dessert turns out to be air and melting in the mouth, it is best to prepare a biscuit cake for this (although some housewives are prepared for sand dough).

What ingredients need to be used to let the biscuit dough:

• flour - 500 g;
• basin - 2 bl.;
• salt - 1 tsp;
• creamy oil - 100 g;
• 150 g of sugar;
• 3 eggs;
• vanilla - 1 tsp;
• milk - 250 ml.

The process of cooking biscuit cake for lemon cake:

1. Immediately turn on the oven for the test time she managed to warm up to 180 °. At the same stage, prepare forms for baking. You will need 2 forms of 25 cm in diameter. Lubricate the shape of creamy oil.
2. Mix in one bowl oil with sugar, eggs, vanilla and milk. We will wear everything to get a lush mass.
3. Separately connect in another container flour with a bundle and salt. Mix flour with a milk-creamy mixture. Thoroughly mix all with a spoon so that there are no lumps.
4. Pour the dough into the form and send everything into the oven for half an hour. During this time, the biscuit must fully prepare.
5. Remove the finished biscuit out of the oven and let it cool.

2

How to cook a filling for lemon cake?

Ingredients required for cooking filling:

• lemon zest - 1.5 tbsp.;
• lemon juice - 125 g;
• starch - 1 tbsp.;
• creamy oil - 75 g;
• 60 g of sugar;
• egg yolk - 4 pcs.

The cooking process for lemon cake:

1. Mix in one casserole zest, juice and starch. Put everything on fire and bring to a boil.
2. After the mass boils, add oil with sugar into it. Boil the filling for 3 minutes.
3. Until the filling boil, whisk whisk the yolks separately.
4. Enter the yolks into the stuffing, which already must boil and thicken at this time. Continue cooking stuffing for 5 min. Just keep in mind that once you enter into the stuffing egg yolks, it does not have to be boiling.
5. Pour the filling into some bowl and let it cool. Refrigerate her to present there for 3 hours.

3

How to cook the cream of lemon cake?

Ingredients that are needed for the preparation of lemon cake:

• 600 g of powdered sugar;
• butter - 100 g (it must be at room temperature);
• lemon juice - 2 tbsp .;
• lemon peel - 1 tsp .;
• milk - 2 tbsp

Process for preparing a lemon cream cake:

1. Connect to audio bowl powdered sugar, butter, lemon juice and peel, and then all whisk mixer or whisk. Should get a uniform fluffy mass.
2. When you see that it turns fluffy consistency, add the milk. Cream during whipping should brighten.

4

How to assemble a lemon cake?

1. Make two 4 biscuit cake - cut each cake into 2 parts horizontally.
2. Fold shortcakes each other, each lubricating lemon.
3. On top of the cake, place the cream. It is desirable that the cake was smeared them on all sides.
4. Put the cake in the refrigerator to biscuits impregnated stuffing.
5. During this time, you can consider the decor. We recommended for this purpose to use slices of lemon or some mermaids harvested yellow or orange.

Cake, prepared according to the above recipe, enough for 7 people. 100 g sweet contains 335 calories, so do not advise you to get involved in it, if you're watching your figure. Keep the cake in the refrigerator only, otherwise it will deteriorate rapidly. Serve it for tea with honey and lemon, to feel all its flavors fully.