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  • Makes 1
  • 75 minutes
  • Difficulty Easy
  • 12 Ingredients

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This is a lusciously moist cake due to the sour cream.


Ingredients (makes 1 Cake)

  • 125 grams Soft butter
  • 1 cup Caster sugar
  • 1 Lemon, grated rind only
  • 2 tablespoons Lemon juice
  • 3 Eggs
  • 150 grams Plain flour
  • 1/3 cup Self raising flour
  • 100 grams Sour cream
  • 125 grams Butter, softened for icing
  • 2 tablespoons Lemon juice for icing
  • 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla essence
  • 3 cups Icing sugar

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius. Grease & line a cake tin.
  2. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add lemon rind, then add eggs one by one, fully incorporating each one before adding the next. Stir through lemon juice.
  3. Sift flours together and fold in carefully, alternating with sour cream.
  4. Bake for 40 minutes. Test the cake by inserting a skewer. If it comes out clean the cake is ready,if it doesn’t, cook for a further 5 minutes and test again.
  5. Allow to cool for 15 minutes, then remove from tin & cool on cake rack for approximately 15 minutes.
  6. Combine the butter for icing, lemon juice for icing, vanilla and icing sugar then beat until light and fluffy. Add more sugar or lemon juice to adjust the consistency as needed. Spread over top & sides of cake with spatula.

Notes

You can add as little or as much lemon juice to,suit your taste. Lemon rind can also be added if liked.

  • Just a sliver of that lemon sour cream cake, please! The cake looks nice and moist. It looks so refreshing and the perfect balance of sweet and zesty. A small piece would be heavenly with my afternoon tea. I’d savor each bite. It looks absolutely divine! Looking forward to trying this recipe.

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  • Loving all these fresh lemon flavoured desserts for sure!!!
    Thank you for sharing.

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  • My kind of recipe. Yum. Thanks.

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  • I love a moist cake and your lemon cake look’s fantastic!

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  • Yum. This looks good, will try

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  • this looks like the perfect afternoon tea cake – ta for the recipe

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  • Definitely a wonderful lemon sour cream cake – moist and delicious.

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  • Looks delicious, thanks for sharing!

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  • Looks delicious, thanks f

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  • oh yes my mouth is drooling ……

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  • Yum. This cake sounds amazing and that icing is incredible!

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  • ooooh cant wait to try this

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  • Thanks for sharing this cake; it looks different and looks scrumptious. Will be making and tasting this cake as soon as possible!

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  • i loved and shared this great recipe

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  • yum what a great recipe! thanks for sharing this

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  • I’d make this cake, lemon and sour cream – delightful.

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  • I love lemon cake. Gr3at job

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  • Looks amazing, another recipe for my to do list.

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  • Sounds scrumptious. Thanks foe the recipe

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  • gorgeous lemon decadent cake, printing this out, thanks for sharing

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