A shiny 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 actual fact, I’ve by no means regretted any lemon cake recipe I’ve ever made!

A snack is a small quantity of meals that you simply eat between meals, so if this can be a snack cake recipe, you possibly can technically have at the least two, if not three, items in at some point. One between breakfast and lunch, one other between lunch and dinner, and because it’s a cake, yet another for dessert! Comply with my logic there? Ha!

What Substances 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 substances for the cake after which a couple of extra for the syrup and glaze. Let me simply state proper up entrance is that it would be best to have about 5-6 lemons to make all of the parts of the this recipe. Right here is your grocery listing:

Cake

• Dry Substances: All Function Flour, Baking Powder, Sugar, Salt and Lemon Zest
• Moist Substances: 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 would like shiny white glaze, use milk. If you would like extra lemon taste, go together with the lemon juice.

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

Find out how to Make a Glazed Lemon Snack Cake

I’m going to stroll you thru the steps of creating this cake. It’s tremendous easy and also you’re going to like the intense 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 substances in a big bowl.
• Add the combination of dry substances and blend till there are not any huge clumps.
• Pour batter into ready pan and bake.
• Whereas the cake is baking, put together the syrup.

Lemon Syrup

• Mix all of the substances 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 fully (at the least an hour) earlier than including the glaze.

Glaze

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

What’s Snack Cake?

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

Can I Use Bottled Lemon Juice?

Sure, you possibly can, however I might advocate 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 depends upon the scale of the lemon and the way ripe it’s, however basically, one lemon provides you with 1/4 – 1/3 cup of juice.

Find out how 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 odor. You additionally need the pores and skin to be shiny 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 might be higher for zesting.

Can Lemon Cake Be Frozen?

Lemon cake could be frozen.

Cool fully, put within the freezer for a few hours with out the glaze, then wrap effectively in plastic and foil and freeze for as much as 3 months. If 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 should be refrigerated, however it might final a day or two longer if stored within the fridge. If you happen to retailer it in an hermetic container within the fridge, it is going to hold for as much as 4 days.

Watch How this Snack Cake is Made…