Lemon Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups cake flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup sugar, plus
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 tablespoons lemon peel, grated
• 3 large eggs
• 3/4 cup butter, cut into 6 pieces, room temperature
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 3 tablespoons lemon juice

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325°f.
• 2 butter a loaf pan (6-cup); set aside.
• 3 using a food processor and the steel knife, combine first 3 ingredients (flour - salt) and process for 3 seconds. pour into a bowl and set aside.
• 4 using the food processor and same steel knife process sugar and lemon peel until peel is minced (20 seconds).
• 5 add eggs and process one minute, scrapping down work bowl. add butter and process one more minute.
• 6 spoon reserved dry ingredients to work bowl and process using 2 on/off turns. run spatula along sides to incorporate all dry ingredients and process using 1 or 2 on/off turns.
• 7 transfer to prepared pan.
• 8 bake for 50-60 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of cake comes clean.
• 9 cool in pan for 5 minutes and insert onto rack, turning right side up.
• 10 to make icing, mix powedered sugar and lemon juice in a small bowl. brush on top and sides of hot cake.
• 11 cool completely.
• 12 cake can be prepared 3 days ahead of time, wrapped tightly and stored at room temperature or can be frozen.