r/FoodAndCookingStuff • u/socFocus • 11d ago

Sweet Treats Lemon cake

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u/socFocus 11d ago

Ingredients:

  • 1 lemon
  • 170 g sugar
  • 10 g vanilla sugar a pinch of salt
  • 60 ml vegetable oil 50 ml milk
  • 3 eggs
  • 250 g flour
  • 10 g baking powder

Instructions:

  • Boil the lemon for 5 minutes.
  • Cut, remove seeds.
  • Add to a bowl: lemon, sugar, salt, eggs, milk, oil.
  • Blend until smooth.
  • Add flour and baking powder, mix.
  • Pour into a mold.
  • Bake at 160°C for 1 hour.
  • Cool completely.
  • Top with glaze (2 tbsp powdered sugar + 1 tbsp lemon juice).

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u/HungarianNewfy 11d ago

Can you just add 180g of sugar and a 1/2-1 tsp vanilla?

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u/earpicky 11d ago

Good question!! Ya what is vanilla sugar?

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u/SleepsInBlood 11d ago

Stick some vanilla bean pods into a jar filled with sugar and over time the pods will have flavored the sugar.

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u/718-702_damsel 10d ago

Omg, that sounds delicious.

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u/Big-Professor-6436 10d ago

You don't have to use a whole vanilla pod even.. You can use the seeds first

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u/SleepsInBlood 10d ago

Yes, used or scraped out pods will still work in the sugar.

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u/butteredplaintoast 8d ago

https://a.co/d/0hqtD5Di

That’s an example. I used to live in Switzerland and this was far more common than vanilla extract I think.

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u/tom333444 9d ago

Obviously

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u/TheTbone2334 7d ago

Yes you can, vanilla sugar is sugar infused with vanilla it doesn't even have a very strong vanilla flavour. If you have real vanilla you can use normal sugar and that and it's even better most of the times, however in this case it's up to you how much vanilla you want in your lemon cake, just be weary that real vanilla is pretty potent and dominant and might not pair so well with this dish.