Its the closest I've come to replicating Starbuck's Lemon Pound cake; dense, incredibly lemony, moist ( but this one isn't greasy like Starbuck's) The flavour bursts on your tongue and wakes up your palate.!!
For the cake:
1-1/2 cups all purpose flour
2 tsps baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup plain yoghurt
1 cup sugar
3 extra large eggs
2 teaspoons grated lemon zest
1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1/4 tsp lemon extact (optional)
1/2 cup vegetable oil.
For the soaking liquid:
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1/3 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/3 cup of sugar.
For the glaze:
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1cup icing sugar
2 tblspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
Preheat the oven to 350f Butter an 8-1/2 inch loaf pan. Line the bottom with baking parchment and butter the entire pan again. Dust lightly with flour.
In a medium bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder and salt. In a larger bowl, whisk together the yoghurt, 1 cup of the sugar, and the eggs, lemon zest and vanilla. Slowly whisk the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients. With a rubber spatula, fold the vegetable oil into the batter, mixing until well incorporated. Pour into the prepared pan and bake for 50 mins. Or until a cake tester placed in the centre comes out clean. When the cake is done, allow it to cool in the pan for 10 mins. While it is cooling make the saoking liquid:
Cook the lemon juice and sugar in a small pan until the sugar dissolves and the mixture is clear.
After ten mins, remove the cake from the pan, and carefully place on a baking rack, set over a cookie sheet. While the cake is still warm, pour the soaking liquid very slowly over the cake, allowing it to be absorbed.( You could also leave the cake in the tin and poke holes in the top with a toothpick , it makes less mess.) Allow the cake to cool.
Make the glaze: combine the Icing sugar and lemon juice and stir together until very smooth. Pour over the cooled cake. Wait 'till set then cut into slices( I removed the cake from the tin before doing this.)Does anyone know the recipe for the lemon cake sold in Starbucks ?
Starbucks does.Does anyone know the recipe for the lemon cake sold in Starbucks ?
Top secret recipes.com had this one free for a week a while back, I printed it off but have it at home. You can buy it for .79 and here's the link.
http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/recipede鈥?/a>
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