Showing posts with label Lemon Cake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lemon Cake. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Lemon Cake recipe and Lemon Curd

Lemon Cake Recipe
Queque de Limon

Ingredients

1 Group:
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more for pans
2 cups sugar
1 tablespoon lemon zest
2 large eggs plus 3 large egg yolks
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice or vanilla extract

2Group:
3 cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled), ½ cup more for pans
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt



3Group:
1 cup low-fat buttermilk
1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 cup water
1 lemon, thinly sliced and seeded
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Butter and flour two 9-by-2-inch cake pans, tapping out excess flour.
In a medium bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and lemon zest.
In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat butter and 1 1/2 cups sugar until light and fluffy. With mixer on low, beat in eggs and yolks, one at a time. Beat in 2 tablespoons lemon juice. Alternately beat in flour mixture and buttermilk beginning and ending with flour mixture; mix just until combined.
Divide batter between pans; smooth tops. Bake until cakes pull away from sides of pans, 35 to 40 minutes.

Let cool in pans 15 minutes. Run a knife around edges of pans and invert cakes onto a wire rack.
While cakes are baking, bring remaining 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 cup water to a boil in a saucepan. Add lemon slices and simmer 25 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer lemon slices to a waxed-paper-lined plate. Stir remaining 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice into syrup.
Using a toothpick, poke holes in warm cakes on rack. Brush with lemon syrup. Let cool completely. Prepare frosting, substituting 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice for vanilla extract. Frost cooled cakes and top with candied lemon slices.
A few changes to our basic vanilla cake recipe turn it into this sunny lemon version. Reserve the egg whites left over from the cake for the frosting.
A few changes to our basic vanilla cake recipe turn it into this sunny lemon version. Reserve the egg whites left over from the cake for the frosting.






Photo:
Using a slotted spoon, transfer lemon slices to a waxed-paper-lined plate. Stir remaining 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice into syrup.




Using a toothpick, poke holes in warm cakes on rack. Brush with lemon syrup. Let cool completely. Prepare frosting





Lemon Curd

Ingredients
·        
    • 1 cup sugar
    • 1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest, plus 2/3 cup fresh lemon juice
    • 8 large egg yolks (egg whites reserved for another use)**
    • 1/4 teaspoon coarse salt 
    • 1 1/4 sticks unsalted butter (10 tablespoons), cut into 1/2-inch pieces
** Reserve the egg whites left over from the cake for the frosting.
Directions
1.     In a medium saucepan, off heat, whisk together sugar, zest, and egg yolks; whisk in lemon juice and salt.
2.     Add butter and place pan over medium-high. Cook, whisking constantly, until butter has melted, mixture is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon, and small bubbles form around the edge of pan, about 5 minutes (do not boil).
3.     Remove pan from heat while continuing to whisk. Pour curd through a fine-mesh sieve into a glass bowl. Press plastic wrap against the surface of curd and refrigerate until cool.
You ca store or refrigerate in an airtight container, up to 2 weeks.

Reference

Meyer lemon From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Citrus × meyeri, the Meyer lemon, is a citrus fruit native to China thought to be a cross between a true lemon and either a mandarin or common orange. It was introduced to the United States in 1908 as S.P.I. #23028[1] by the agricultural explorer Frank Nicholas Meyer, an employee of the United States Department of Agriculture who collected a sample of the plant on a trip to China.[2]
The Meyer lemon is commonly grown in China in garden pots as an ornamental tree. It became popular as a food item in the United States after being rediscovered by chefs such as Alice Waters at Chez Panisse during the California Cuisine revolution.[3][4] Popularity further climbed when Martha Stewart began featuring them in her recipes.[2]
See more in : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_lemon


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