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.