Description
Maida heatter
Ingredients
- All-purpose Flour
- Baking Powder
- Salt
- Unsalted Butter
- Sugar
- Eggs
- Milk
- Lemons, Zest Of
- Lemon Juice
Instructions
- Position oven rack 1 / 3 up from the bottom of the oven
- Preheat oven to 350
- Butter a 12-cup capacity bundt pan
- Dust it lightly with fine, dry breadcrumbs
- Set aside
- Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt
- Set aside
- In a large bowl of an electric stand mixer, beat the butter until soft
- Add in the sugar and beat until incorporated
- Beat in the eggs one at a time, scraping the bowl as necessary
- On lowest speed add the dry ingredients alternately in three additions with the milk in two additions, beating only until incorporated after each addition
- Remove the bowl from the mixer
- Stir in lemon rind
- Turn the batter into the prepared pan
- Level the top of the batter by rotating the pan briskly from left to rightand from right to left
- Bake for 1 hour and 5-10 minutes until a pick comes out clean
- Let the cake stand in the pan for 5 minutes, then cover with a rack and invert
- Remove from the pan, leaving the cake upside down
- Place over a large piece of foil or wax paper
- Prepare the glaze
- The glaze: the glaze should be used immediately after it is mixed
- Mix the lemon juice and sugar together
- Brush it all over the hot cake
- The cake will absorb it
- Let cool completely and then transfer to a cake plate
- It is best to wait a few hours before cutting the cake
- May substitute cup key lime juice for the lemon juice, but ms
- Heatter recommends not changing the lemon rind to lime rind