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Sour Cream Lemon Cake

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Sour Cream Lemon Cake
A glazed lemon cake, made with fresh lemon and sour cream. Scroll down to see more lemon cakes and other lemon dessert recipes.

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup butter, room temperature
  • 2 cups granulated sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • grated zest of 1 large lemon
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • .
  • Lemon Glaze:
  • 1/4 cup melted butter
  • 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
  • 2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 325°. Generously butter and flour a 10-inch bundt pan.

Into a bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder and salt; set aside.

In a mixing bowl with hand-held electric mixer, cream 1 cup butter and granulated sugar; beat at high speed until mixture is very light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition and scraping down side of bowl frequently. Blend in lemon zest. Add flour mixture to the creamed mixture alternately with sour cream, adding each in 3 additions. Scrape sides of bowl frequently. Pour batter into prepared cake pan; bake in the preheated oven for 55 to 65 minutes, or until a cake tester or wooden pick inserted near the center of cake comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Meanwhile, combine lemon glaze ingredients in a bowl, blending until smooth. Carefully turn cake out onto a platter; drizzle evenly with glaze.
Serves 12 or more, depending on size of servings.

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User Reviews

 2 out of 5
Little dense...little flavour, Member TopazShadow

I followed the recipe, but when I combined everything together found the batter to be dense, so I added the juice from the two lemons I had used for zest. Even still, I found that the cake did not taste lemony at all. Might as well make a normal pound cake and pour the glaze over. It might be that I undermixed the butter/sugar and overmixed the rest...still, be warned when making this recipe

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