Description
You’ll have a fiesta on your table when you use this recipe to make a light, lemony, fluffy, and festive lemon-accented cake with raisins.
Ingredients
- 10 tablespoons butter
- 1 ½ cups white sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 tablespoon grated lemon zest
- 2 ½ cups sifted all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup buttermilk
- ¾ teaspoon lemon extract
- ½ cup golden raisins
- ⅓ cup white sugar
- ⅓ cup butter
- 1 ½ tablespoons water
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a Bundt pan.
- Cream 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons butter and 1 1/2 cups sugar until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time beating after each addition. Blend in the lemon peel.
- In a separate bowl
- mix flour
- salt
- soda and baking powder. Add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk to creamed butter mixture. Add lemon extract and raisins.
- Bake at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) for 50 minutes cool 5 minutes
- then turn out onto serving plate. Prick hot cake with skewer or fork and pour on lemon topping.
- Combine 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup butter and water in a saucepan and heat until butter melts. Add lemon juice . Spoon over hot cake.
Servings: 12