Glazed Lemon Cake
- 1/2 lb butter
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 3 eggs
- 3 cups flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 2 tablespoons tightly packed lemons, zest of
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- Icing
- 1 box powdered sugar
- 1/2 - 1 cup butter
- 3 tablespoons tightly packed lemons, zest of
- 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
- Oven 325- greased and floured 10 inch tube pan.
- Cream butter and sugar.
- Add eggs, one at a time.
- Sift dry ingredients together and add alternately with buttermilk.
- Blend well.
- Stir in lemon juice and zest.
- Bake on middle rack for 1 hour and 5 minutes (this was right on the nose for my oven) or until cake begins to pull away from the side of the pan.
- Cool on rack ten minutes before removing from pan.
- "Frost"while warm.
- Obviously this runs and then upon cooling almost forms a"shell".
- Icing-------.
- Beat ingredients well.
butter, sugar, eggs, flour, baking soda, salt, buttermilk, lemons, lemon juice, icing, powdered sugar, butter, lemons, lemon juice
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/glazed-lemon-cake-19254 (may not work)