How To Make Lemon Cake

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Ingredients

6 large egg yolks

1 cup Milk

2 1/2 tsp Lemon extract

3 cups Cake Flour

1 Tbs plus 1tsp Baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

11/2 cups sugar

3/4 cup unsalted Butter – room temperature

Method

  • Preheat oven to 350 F / 180 C. Prepare 2 – 9″ pans.
  • In a bowl mix well egg yolks, extract and milk .
  • Sift together flour, baking powder and salt.
  • Cream the butter in a separate bowl until fluffy.
  • Scrape down bowl and add sugar.
  • Beat until butter and sugar are fluffy.  Scrape down bowl.
  • Add flour mixture (3 parts) and milk mixture (2 parts) alternately.
  • With each addition of milk and flour mixture, scrape down bowl.
  • Mix batter on medium for 30 seconds after all is added.
  • Remove from mixer and make sure all is combined.
  • Divide batter into both pans and bake 25-35 minutes.
  • Don’t open oven door until 25 minutes
  • Let cool and turn out onto rack.  Cool cakes completely .
  • Fill and Frost with Swiss buttercream ( coming up next)