5-Star Lemon Cake with Barefoot Contessa | Barefoot Contessa | Food Network

[Music] nothing a beach picnic and I'm gonna bring shrimp salad pasta pesto and peas and my favorite lemon cake transports really well to the beach so I'm going to show you how to make this if you can make this lemon cake you can make any cake I've got room-temperature butter 1/2 a pound and 2 cups of sugar that I've been mixing in the mixer until it's really light and fluffy then I'm gonna add 4 room-temperature eggs I'm gonna add the eggs one at a time and just let them get incorporated into the butter and sugar okay the next thing gonna put in is 1/3 of a cup of grated lemon zest and that goes in wonderful okay then I have to put together my dry ingredients and wet ingredients first the wet ingredients I have a quarter of a cup of fresh lemon juice that I've squeezed buttermilk which is great it's a low-fat milk that's got a culture in it so quarter of a cup of lemon juice plus 3/4 of a cup of buttermilk then the next thing is vanilla I love the smell of vanilla I figure out how to put it into almost every big product so teaspoon of vanilla now the dry ingredients so that's three cups of flour half a teaspoon of baking soda 1/2 a teaspoon of baking powder and a teaspoon of salt salt surprisingly important in baking things really brings out the lemon and the lemon cake and I'm just gonna sift these together sifting really combines it but it also makes sure that there's nothing in the bottom so I want to put them in alternately starting and ending with the dry ingredients just until it's mixed and then add the wet ingredients this keeps the batter from getting too thick or too runny and it keeps it really light great thing about this recipe is it's in fact better the next day so if you're having a party it's really great to make it in advance and then the last flour so that's it I've got the dry ingredients the wet ingredients and I'm just gonna give it up one more mix with a spatula make sure it's really well mixed mmm you can smell the first time wonderful just one more mix with a spatula okay right over here I've got two baking pans that I've greased and floured and have a little piece of parchment paper on the bottom so there's no point in making a delicious cake if you can't get it out of the pan and divide this up evenly that looks a bit even right looks good so they're gonna bake 350 degrees for about 40 to 45 minutes and after they come out I have a simple syrup made of lemon juice and sugar and a drizzle on the top and it's soaks in and it just has such a fresh lemon flavor and it keeps it incredibly moist you

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Id: MVo58jlA16k

Length: 3min 40sec (220 seconds)

Published: Fri May 08 2020