For my birthday for the past 6 or 7 years, when possible, A. bakes me a birthday cake of my choice. The season is such that it involves often lemon or apple. This year the tradition went on and he prepared on my request a lemon cake. With the lemon just harvested in the garden. These lemons I have seen slowly growing and are totally free of pesticides, wax and other things that make you think twice before using the zest. The cake he made was super delicious, on of the best I have had! I wonder why he doesn’t bake more often!! And because he used the recipe he found online and didn’t want to halve the quantities, we obtained 2 cakes of perfect size for tea and breakfast for two. I slightly ask him to modify the recipe to be less buttery, so here is the actual recipe he used:
Lemon cake
– 200g of flour
– 120g of brown sugar
– 80g of butter
– 4eggs
– 1tbs of baking powder
– 1 lemon (free of chemical)
Melt the butter. Wash the lemon and extract both the zests and the juice.
In a bowl, mix the flour, the baking powder, the sugar, add the eggs, the butter and end with the lemon juice and the zest. Pour in a cake dish (one 30cm or two 20 or less).
Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180deg for 35min to 45min
When ready eat right away or once is has cooled down.
Have a beautiful end of 2018!!
