Mamas Favorite Lemon Cake Recipes

MOM'S LEMON CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Butter and flour a 10 inch tube pan.
• Combine flour, baking powder and salt and set aside.
• In a separate bowl mix butter and sugar with an electric mixer until fluffy.
• Add eggs one at a time and beat well after each addition.
• Add flour mixture to egg mixture, alternatively with 1 cup milk, mixing well after each addition.
• Stir in lemon zest.
• Bake for about 40-50 minutes or until tester comes out clean
• Meanwhile, combine lemon juice and sugar in a saucepan and simmer until sugar dissolves.
• Allow cake to cool in pan for about ten minutes, then turn out to wire rack and cool completely.
• Once cool, poke cake with a fork and pour glaze on top.

MAMA'S HOT LEMON POKE CAKE RECIPE - (4.9/5)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325F degrees. Spray your bundt cake pan or 9x13 pan liberally with non-stick baking spray that contains flour. (Regular non-stick cooking spray will not work.) Set aside. Pour the dry cake mix into the bowl of your standard or hand held mixer. Add all of the other Cake ingredients except the lemon juice and zest and mix on high for 2 minutes. Stir in the lemon zest and juice of 1 lemon until well blended. Pour batter into cake pan and bake 45-60 minutes (depending on thickness of pan and your oven), or until toothpick comes out clean. Meanwhile, mix Lemon Glaze ingredients in a medium bowl until the consistency of pancake batter is reached. If desired, add additional lemon juice or sugar to taste. Let glaze sit to thicken. Once cake is done, remove from oven and wait five minutes then flip onto cooling rack. Cool for 5 more minutes. Carefully transfer cake to serving platter and liberally poke holes all over the cake using a chopstick. (The more holes, the more glaze seeps into cake!) If serving immediately, pour glaze all over the cake, respooning Glaze over the cake as it drizzles down the cake. Glaze will become more translucent as it sits on the cake. If not serving immediately, spoon half of the glaze over the cake, respooning Glaze as it drizzles down the cake. When ready to serve, spoon reserved Glaze over cake and microwave individual servings until warm.

MOM'S CITRUS BUTTERMILK CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Grease and flour a 10-in. fluted tube pan., Cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Add 1 egg at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in extract. In another bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating after each addition., Transfer to prepared pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 45-50 minutes. , Poke holes in warm cake using a fork or wooden skewer. Mix glaze ingredients; spoon slowly over cake. Cool 15 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack; cool completely.,

GRANDMA'S LEMON POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease a tube pan.
• Sift flour and salt together into a bowl. Mix milk and lemon extract together in a separate bowl.
• Combine sugar, butter, and shortening in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating until well combined. Mix in the flour mixture alternately with the milk mixture, beginning and ending with flour. Spread batter in the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 2 hours. Do not open the oven door while the cake is baking. Cool briefly in the pan before inverting onto a wire rack to cool completely.