SOUR CREAM LEMON CAKE

This free Sour Cream Lemon Recipe is lovely to serve with tea! This light sponge cake has the most divine lemon flavour!

Ingredients


Cake:
200g soft butter or margarine
160ml sugar
4 extra large eggs
15ml finely grated lemon rind
5ml lemon essence
500ml cake flour
10ml baking powder
250ml sour cream
80ml milk


Glaze:
80ml fresh lemon juice
60ml sugar
30ml water


Method


Cake:

• Preheat the oven to 160°C.
• Cream the butter and sugar.
• Add the eggs one at a time with the lemon rind and lemon essence and beat until light and fluffy.
• Sift the flour and baking powder and add, alternately with the sour cream and milk, to the egg mixture. 
• Mix gently until smooth and pour into a well-greased 23cm round loose-bottomed tin.
• Bake in a preheated oven at for about 45 – 50 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.

Glaze:

• Boil the lemon juice, sugar and water until the sugar has dissolved.
• Remove the cake from oven and pour glaze over cake while it is still hot. Leave cake for a few more minutes in the tin before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

Makes 1 cake