Glazed Lemon Snack Cake – Oh Candy Basil

A vibrant lemon snack cake that’s dense however moist, soaked in a lemon syrup and topped with a lemon glaze. This one is for all you lemon lovers on the market!

This recipe began out as a white cake however I couldn’t resist the lemon and ended up with this tangy, scrumptious magnificence. I haven’t regretted one second of it! In reality, I’ve by no means regretted any lemon cake recipe I’ve ever made!

A snack is a small quantity of meals that you just eat between meals, so if this can be a snack cake recipe, you may technically have a minimum of two, if not three, items in someday. One between breakfast and lunch, one other between lunch and dinner, and because it’s a cake, another for dessert! Observe my logic there? Ha!

What Elements are Wanted for Glazed Lemon Snack Cake?

There’s lemon in all elements of this glazed cake…lemon lemon lemon! We’ll begin with the components for the cake after which a couple of extra for the syrup and glaze. Let me simply state proper up entrance is that you’ll want to have about 5-6 lemons to make all of the parts of the this recipe. Right here is your grocery listing:

Cake

• Dry Elements: All Goal Flour, Baking Powder, Sugar, Salt and Lemon Zest
• Moist Elements: Butter, Vegetable Oil, Eggs, Milk, Vanilla, Lemon Extract, Almond Extract and Lemon Juice

Lemon Syrup

• Butter: provides richness
• Sugar: provides the sweetness and helps thicken the syrup
• Lemon Juice: provides taste and tartness
• Vanilla: provides taste

Lemon Glaze

• Powdered Sugar: provides sweetness
• Lemon Juice (or Milk): If you’d like vibrant white glaze, use milk. If you’d like extra lemon taste, go along with the lemon juice.

The measurements for every ingredient are listed within the recipe card under.

The way to Make a Glazed Lemon Snack Cake

I’m going to stroll you thru the steps of constructing this cake. It’s tremendous easy and also you’re going to like the brilliant lemon taste in each step. Let’s begin with the cake…

Cake

• Preheat the oven and put together an 8×8″ sq. baking pan with parchment.
  • PRO TIP: Spray the pan, line it with parchment after which spray once more.
• Combine the moist components in a big bowl.
• Add the combination of dry components and blend till there aren’t any massive clumps.
• Pour batter into ready pan and bake.
• Whereas the cake is baking, put together the syrup.

Lemon Syrup

• Mix all of the components in a small saucepan over medium warmth till the higher melts. Stir to mix.
• When the cake is completed, poke it all the pieces with a toothpick.
• Pour the lemon syrup everywhere in the high.
• Let the cake cool utterly (a minimum of an hour) earlier than including the glaze.

Glaze

• Whisk the components collectively after which pour over the cooled cake.
  • PRO TIP: I prefer to take away the cake from the pan earlier than including the glaze in order that it could possibly drip down the edges.
  • If you’d like your glaze to be white just like the pictures, use milk as a substitute of lemon juice to make the glaze.

What’s Snack Cake?

A snack cake is often a single layer cake with both no topping or a extremely easy topping like a glaze. A number of of our cake recipes could possibly be thought-about a snack cake like our glazed orange bundt cake.

Can I Use Bottled Lemon Juice?

Sure, you may, however I might suggest utilizing recent if in any respect doable. It actually makes an enormous distinction in taste.

How A lot Lemon Juice is in One Lemon?

It will depend on the scale of the lemon and the way ripe it’s, however basically, one lemon will provide you with 1/4 – 1/3 cup of juice.

The way to Select a Ripe Lemon

You need to search for a couple of key indicators {that a} lemon is ripe. It ought to really feel heavy for it’s dimension and have a pleasing scent. You additionally need the pores and skin to be vibrant yellow and never be wrinkly. Lemons additionally often have a thinner pores and skin or a thicker pores and skin. The thinner pores and skin often has extra juice and thicker pores and skin shall be higher for zesting.

Can Lemon Cake Be Frozen?

Lemon cake may be frozen.

Cool utterly, put within the freezer for a few hours with out the glaze, then wrap nicely in plastic and foil and freeze for as much as 3 months. While you’re able to eat it, let it come to room temperature on the counter after which add the glaze proper earlier than serving.

Does Lemon Cake Want To Be Refrigerated?

No, it doesn’t need to be refrigerated, however it could final a day or two longer if saved within the fridge. For those who retailer it in an hermetic container within the fridge, it is going to maintain for as much as 4 days.

Watch How this Snack Cake is Made…