I am a FTWM with 2 kids, i love baking, cooking during my free time. Always like to explore for good recipes of any food to try on. Hence, i decided to open an blog to keep track of my cooking records wef 21.08.09.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Lemon Butter Cake







On 01.07.10 evening, i managed to find this recipe from GracekitchenCorner.blogspot.com, i decided to give a go as her picture of the cake is so soft and moist. Here, is my item to show you. When i m grinding the skin of the lemon, the smell is so good that my family member can feel it. My sil is always busy doing her kueh for selling in the market the next morning, also ask me what is the good smell and i told her that i m grating the lemon zest. It is very good. I have increase recipe 2 times and bake into 2 loaf of cake.

Ingredient: 250 plain flour, 60gm of Ground Almond (baked for 5-10mins), 250g butter, 180g sugar, 1tsp of baking powder, 1tsp vanilla essence, 5 eggs, 2 lemon zest, 4 tbsp of lemon juice, 4 tbsp of milk.

Method.
1. Sieve flour, Ground almond and baking powder and set aside for use later.
2. Cream butter with half of the sugar till pale and add in egg yolk one at a time.
3. Add in lemon zest and juice and stir well and stir in the no. 1 and set aside.
4. Whish egg white with another half of sugar to peak white foam
5. Stir in 1/3 of egg white into no.3
6. Pour No. 5 into the balance of egg white batter.
7. Bake at 170c, after ten minute, we use a knife to make a cut from the center of the tin as it will later bloom very nicely. we bake for another 30-35 min till cooked.






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