Lemon Yeast Cake from King Arthur
photo by Bonnie G #2
- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
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1 10
- Serves:
- 8
ingredients
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Cake
- 532.32 ml unbleached all-purpose flour, divided
- 6.16 ml instant yeast
- 59.14 ml sugar
- 2.46 ml salt
- 1 warm milk
- 147.89 ml unsalted butter, melted
- 4 eggs
- 14.79 ml lemon zest
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Syrup
- 177.44 ml sugar
- 118.29 ml water
- 118.29 ml lemon juice
directions
- Grease a 10" tube pan.
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Cake:
- Combine 3/4 cups flour, yeast, sugar and salt.
- Combine warm milk and melted butter, gradually add to flour mixture, mixing for 2 minutes.
- Add eggs, remaining 1 1/2 cups flour, and zest.
- Beat vigorously for 2 minutes.
- Spread dough evenly into pan.
- over, let rise for 1 hour.
- Towards the end of the cake's rising time, preheat oven to 375°F.
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Syrup:
- Combine sugar and water in saucepan and bring to a boil over medium-high heat.
- Simmer for about 10 minutes, until the syrup thickens.
- Add lemon juice and remove from heat.
- Bake cake for 22-25 minutes, until tester inserted into center comes out clean.
- Remove from oven.
- Brush half syrup over cake and allow to cool for 5 minutes.
- Turn out onto a rack set over parchment or a pan.
- Brush remaining syrup over newly exposed bottom crust.
- Turn cake right side up onto plate and cool completely.
- Serve with whipped cream and berries.
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Reviews
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So far so good! On the plate cooling. The top of my cake is not smooth but the underside looked much like the photo. I decided to plate ut right side up. I had to substitute measurements to grams as i’m in Australia which can change the outcome a little. This is for my Bake Group that meets tommorow and Yeast baking is the theme. I’d love to tuck into a piece now but will wait. It’ll be interesting to see how it is tomorrow. What a great recipe!!
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Photo may be seen here (in Savor): http://feastyoureyes.smugmug.com/<br/>I don't think that I have ever made a cake with yeast but it works great. The texture can best be described as a firm angel food. The lemon taste in the cake is very mild and with the ask for sugar (I used Splenda) it's not at all sweet. I added another 14 cup of Splenda to suite our taste. The glaze on the other hand packs a lemon punch when sampled but when it's absorbed by the cake it's wonderful. Mine set to make a crisp thin coating that crunched when sliced. I want to say that the recipe would work perfectly fine without the extra sweetening that I added for personal taste only. It's also fun to watch your cake rising! :D
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