Old fashioned cake, pretty on its own. Without any thick blanket of sugar frosting.
Recipe Tags
Veg
Dinner Party
American
Dessert
High Fibre
Ingredients Serving: 6
All purpose flour - 1 cup
Cornmeal - 1 cup
Baking powder - 1 tsp
Egg - 2
Butter - 1/2 cup (1 stick)
Buttermilk - 1/2 cup or orange juice
Lemon juice - 1/4 cup
Syrup/Glaze: Lemon juice - 1/3 cup
Powdered sugar- 2 tbsp (or more)
Instructions
Whisk the flour, cornmeal, baking powder in a medium sized bowl.
In an another bowl cream the butter by beating it with sugar, add lemon zest and lemon juice. Once it becomes fluffy, add eggs one by one. Beat well, add the buttermilk & finally fold in the flour mixture.
Do not over mix. Bake in a greased loaf pan, in a preheated oven at 180°C for around 30-35 minutes. Until the cake tester/skewer comes out clean. Cool the cake for 5 minutes on a wire rack.
For the glaze: Mix lemon juice and powdered sugar. Pour on top of the hot cake. Let the cake absorb the syrup completely, let it sit overnight at room temperature.
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Whisk the flour, cornmeal, baking powder in a medium sized bowl.
In an another bowl cream the butter by beating it with sugar, add lemon zest and lemon juice. Once it becomes fluffy, add eggs one by one. Beat well, add the buttermilk & finally fold in the flour mixture.
Do not over mix. Bake in a greased loaf pan, in a preheated oven at 180°C for around 30-35 minutes. Until the cake tester/skewer comes out clean. Cool the cake for 5 minutes on a wire rack.
For the glaze: Mix lemon juice and powdered sugar. Pour on top of the hot cake. Let the cake absorb the syrup completely, let it sit overnight at room temperature.
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