Maida Heatters Best Damn Lemon Cake Recipes

EAST 62ND STREET LEMON CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325 degrees. Butter a 9‐inch tube pan. Coat it with the bread crumbs.
• Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt and set aside.
• Cream the butter and sugar together. Beat in the eggs one at a time.
• Fold in the dry ingredients alternately with the milk. Stir in the lemon zest. Pour the batter into the pan and smooth the top of the batter. Bake 1¼ hours, or until the cake tests done.
• While the cake bakes, make the glaze. Warm the juice and sugar in a small saucepan over medium-low heat until all of the sugar is dissolved. Cover and remove from heat.
• When the cake is done, immediately unmold the cake onto a cake rack and apply the glaze with a pastry brush to the top and sides of the cake until it is all absorbed.

MAIDA HEATTER'S BEST DARN LEMON CAKE EVER

Steps:

• Spray an 8-1/2"x5" loaf pan with baking spray.
• Grind almonds very fine and set aside.
• Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt and set aside.
• In a small heavy saucepan, melt butter. Transfer to a large bowl. With electric mixer, add sugar and beat a bit to mix.
• On low speed, beat in eggs one at a time, beating only to mix well.
• Add dry ingredients in three additions, alternating with milk in two additions, scraping bowl with a spatula and beating until mixed after each addition.
• Mix in lemon extract.
• Remove from mixer. Stir in grated rind, then stir in ground almonds.
• Turn mixture into pan. (It will be thin.) Bake at 350 for 65-75 minutes. (During baking, cake will form a large crack or two on top, and crack(s) will remain light in color.).
• A few minutes before cake is finished, prepare glaze: stir sugar and lemon juice in a small saucepan over moderate heat, only until sugar is just dissolved. (Don't boil!).
• When cake is removed from the oven, let it stand for 2-3 minutes. Then, using brush, brush the hot glaze gradually over the hot cake. Glaze should not be applied quickly; it should take about 5 minutes to apply all the glaze.
• Let cake stand until not quite completely cool. Then gently invert onto a rack and turn right side up. When cool, wrap in plastic wrap or foil and let stand 12-24 hours before serving.

MAIDA HEATTER'S EAST 62ND STREET LEMON CAKE

Steps:

• Adjust oven rack 1/3 from bottom of oven. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter 9x3-1/2-inch tube pan and dust it lightly with fine, dry bread crumbs.
• Sift flour, baking powder, and salt and set aside. In large bowl of electric mixer cream the butter. Add the sugar and beat for 2 to 3 minutes. Beat in the eggs individually, scraping the bowl as necessary with a rubber spatula to keep mixture smooth. On lowest speed alternately add the dry ingredients in three additions and the milk in two additions, scraping the bowl with the rubber spatula as necessary and beating only until smooth after each addition. Stir in lemon rind. Turn the batter into prepared pan. Level top by rotating pan briskly back and forth.
• Bake for 1 hour and 10 to 15 minutes until a cake tester comes out dry.
• Let cake stand in pan for about 3 minutes and then cover with a rack and invert. Remove pan, leaving the cake upside down. Place over a large piece of aluminum foil or waxed paper and prepare glaze.
• The glaze must be used immediately after it is mixed.
• Stir the lemon juice and sugar together and brush all over the hot cake until absorbed.
• Let cake cool completely. Use two wide metal pancake turners or a cookie sheet to transfer it to a cake plate.
• Do not cut for at least several hours.

THE BEST DAMN LEMON CAKE

Steps:

• Adjust rack to bottom 1/3 of oven and preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Butter a loaf pan with a 6 cup capacity and dust with cookie of plain bread crumbs.
• Sift together flourand baking powder.
• Melt butter.
• In a mixing bowl combine butter and sugar.
• Add eggs one at a time on low speed.
• Then add sifted dry ingredients and milk alternately.
• Mix in lemon extract.
• Fold in almonds and lemon zest.
• Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake for 65-75 minutes.
• Two or three minutes before the cake is done, prepare the glaze.
• Heat juice and sugar until the sugar is melted, but do not boil.
• Remove the cake from the oven and cool for three minutes.
• Then glaze the cake in the pan by brushing the hot liquid over the cake, letting it soak in slowly- this should take about five minutes.
• Cool and turn cake out onto a rack.
• Store wrapped in wax paper AND aluminum foil.
• Best served after a few days.