Printable Recipe
The Simplest Lemon Cake with Cream
A printable The Simplest Lemon Cake with Cream recipe card from Yummy Life, with eggs, sugar, pinch of salt and vanillin or vanilla sugar and step-by-step instructions from the original YouTube video. Tags: baked, baking, cake and citrus. ChefScribe makes the video easier to follow as a clean recipe card.
Servings
8
Ingredients
17
Steps
13
Filed under: baked, baking, cake, citrus, dessert, vanilla.
Source channel: Yummy Life
Key ingredients
eggs, sugar, pinch of salt, vanillin or vanilla sugar, flour.
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 70g sugar
- pinch of salt
- vanillin or vanilla sugar
- 80g flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 40g sugar
- lemon zest to taste
- vanillin or vanilla sugar
- 30g cornstarch
- 3 egg yolks
- 250g milk
- 150g heavy cream 33%
- 80g water
- 25g lemon juice
- ~100g whipped cream
- lemon wedges
Method
- Preheat oven and prepare a 20 cm cake mold.
- Beat 3 eggs with 70g sugar, salt, and vanilla until fluffy.
- Sift flour with baking powder and gently fold into egg mixture.
- Pour batter into mold and bake until a toothpick comes out clean.
- For lemon cream, mix sugar, lemon zest, vanilla, cornstarch, and egg yolks.
- Heat milk and gradually add to egg mixture, stirring constantly.
- Cook mixture until thickened, then cool.
- Whip 150g heavy cream and fold into cooled lemon cream.
- Prepare lemon syrup by mixing water and lemon juice.
- Soak baked sponge cake with lemon syrup to keep moist.
- Layer sponge cake with lemon cream and repeat if desired.
- Top with whipped cream and decorate with lemon wedges.
- Refrigerate cake overnight for best flavor and texture.