Cake with lemon glaze

(from maude’s recipe box)

Categories: Cake/Pies/Pastry

Ingredients

  • 1 t salt
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 t baking powder
  • 3 C all purpose flour
  • 1 C butter
  • 1 C milk
  • 2 C sugar
  • 1 t salt
  • grated rind of 2 lemons or 3/4 t
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 t baking powder
  • Frosting
  • 3 C all purpose flour
  • 1 C milk
  • grated rind of 2 lemons or 3/4 t
  • 1/3 C fresh lemon juice
  • 3/4 C sugar
  • Frosting
  • 1/3 C fresh lemon juice
  • OR
  • 3/4 C sugar
  • 3 C confectioner sugar
  • OR
  • 1/2 t vanilla or lemon extract
  • 3 C confectioner sugar
  • 1/2 t vanilla or lemon extract
  • juice of 3 lemons
  • 1 stick softened butter

Directions

  1. Lightly grease and flour tube pan

  2. Preheat oven to 350 deg

  3. Beat butter, sugar, salt until fluffy

  4. Add eggs 1 at a time

  5. Beat butter, sugar, salt until fluffy

  6. Add baking powder to flour then add flour alternating with milk to the sugar and butter mixture, starting and ending with flour. Mix until smooth. Stir in rind or oil

  7. Bake 55-60 min or until done

  8. While baking make glaze by stirring together lemon juice and sugar

  9. When cake is done, cool 5 minutes, flip over, poke holes and pour on glaze

  10. OR:

  11. When cool, ice cake if not using glaze

  12. Bake 55-60 min or until done

  13. While baking make glaze by stirring together lemon juice and sugar

  14. When cake is done, cool 5 minutes, flip over, poke holes and pour on glaze

  15. OR:

  16. When cool, ice cake if not using glaze

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