A royal treat for me and my family today. I wanted a cake that should have been not so sweet, not so heavy and with a sour flavor. Lemon was the first ingredient that have crossed my mind and I have found a recipe in Princess Margareta's book. The initial recipe was asking for 400g of sugar in total. Sorry guys, that is way too much sugar to put in a cake for me, so I have used only half of quantity and I could have even cut more. The result was delicious. My daughter loved it very much ... and for me this what counts.
Ingredients:
- 225g butter + 25g to grease the pans (room temperature)
- 100g sugar
- 225g flour
- 4 eggs
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 3 tablespoons poppy seeds
For syrup:
- 100ml water
- 100g sugar
- the juice of 2 big lemons
Directions:
- Mix the butter with sugar.
- Add eggs one by one and mix.
- Add lemon zest and mix.
- Separately, mix the flour with baking powder and poppy seeds.
- Add this into the butter composition and mix until well combined. It will look in the end more or less like a dough.
- Pour this composition into 2 small baking pans, after they have been oiled with butter.
- Bake in the preheated oven at 180ºC for 40 minutes.
- Meanwhile, make the syrup by combining water, sugar and lemon juice. Boil it for 5-10 minutes and keep it warm until the cake is ready.
- Take out the cake from the oven without removing it from the pan. take a fork or a skewer stick and sting the cake well on the surface.
- Pour the syrup over the cake and let everything cool completely before you take them out of the pan.
Recipe inspired from Royal Cook Book - Principesa Margareta a Romaniei, page 44.
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