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🍰 Moist Lemon Cake with Glaze
167 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- Eggs 4 pcs.
- Sugar 200 g
- Salt pinch
- Vanilla extract 1 tsp
- Lemon paste 2 tsp
- Sour cream yogurt Greek style 220 g
- Sunflower oil 100 ml
- Wheat flour, Type 405 240 g
- Baking powder 2 tsp
- Icing sugar 100 g
- Organic lemons 1 pcs.
Instructions
- 1. Preheat your oven to 170 degrees Celsius with top and bottom heat.
- 2. Grease two small loaf cake pans. You can use baking spray or some butter for this.
- 3. Beat the eggs together with the sugar, a pinch of salt, and the vanilla extract in a bowl until creamy. This takes about four to five minutes.
- 4. Now stir in the lemon paste, the yogurt, and the sunflower oil into the egg mixture.
- 5. Mix the flour with the baking powder in a separate bowl.
- 6. Sift the flour mixture over the liquid batter.
- 7. Gently fold the dry ingredients into the wet mixture with a spoon or spatula until no more flour is visible.
- 8. Divide the finished batter evenly between the two prepared baking pans.
- 9. Place the pans on a baking sheet and put it into the preheated oven.
- 10. Bake the cakes for 40 to 45 minutes at 170 degrees Celsius with top and bottom heat.
- 11. Take the cakes out of the oven and let them cool down in the pans for a short while.
- 12. Carefully turn the cakes out onto serving plates so they release easily.
- 13. Whisk the powdered sugar with two tablespoons of lemon juice and one teaspoon of lemon paste to form a smooth glaze.
- 14. Pour the glaze evenly over the cooled cakes.
- 15. Sprinkle the cakes with some lemon zest and let the glaze set completely.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 167
- Protein: 3 g · Fett/Fat: 8 g · Carbs: 22 g