Sybil's Old Fashioned Lemon Layer Cake

Name: Sybil's Old Fashioned Lemon Layer Cake
Prep time: 2 h 15 min
Cook time: 2 h 15 min
Total time: 2 h 15 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 Tbsp baking powder; 2 Tbsps butter; 1 egg, beaten; 6 eggs, separated; 6 Tbsps all-purpose flour; 118 milliliters lemon juice; 2 Tbsps grated lemon peel; 2 Tbsps milk; 0 teaspoons salt; 532 milliliters white sugar

Sybil's Old Fashioned Lemon Layer Cake is a vegetarian recipe with 8 servings. This recipe covers 6% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 324 calories, 6g of protein, and 7g of fat. It works well as a dessert. If you have flour, sugar, salt, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 2 hours and 15 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour 3 9-inch cake pans. In a bowl, whisk together 3 1/4 cups of flour, baking powder, and salt.

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Baking Powder

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Whisk

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Cream 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons softened butter in a large bowl with an electric mixer until smooth, then mix in 2 1/4 cups of sugar until thoroughly blended and fluffy. Beat 6 egg yolks into the butter mixture, one at a time, beating well after each yolk is added. Beat the flour mixture into the butter mixture in thirds, alternating with milk.

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Egg Yolk

Butter

Cream

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Milk

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Mix in 3/4 teaspoon of grated lemon peel and 1 3/4 teaspoon of lemon juice.

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Lemon Juice

Lemon Peel

With clean beaters, beat the egg whites to stiff peaks in a bowl; lightly fold the egg whites into the batter; use a rubber spatula or wire whisk to fold 1/3 of the beaten egg whites into the batter. Gently run the spatula through the center of the bowl, then around the sides of the bowl, repeating until fully incorporated.

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Egg Whites

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Add the remaining egg whites, folding just until incorporated..

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Egg Whites

Pour the batter into the 3 prepared cake pans.

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cake comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes. Allow cakes to cool in pans for 10 minutes; then turn out onto a rack to finish cooling.

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To make filling, whisk 2 1/4 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons of grated lemon peel, 1/2 cup of lemon juice, 5 1/2 tablespoons of flour, and beaten egg together in a saucepan. Cook the mixture over low heat, whisking constantly, until the filling almost comes to a boil; cook until thickened and smooth, about 1 minute.

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Lemon Juice

Lemon Peel

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Egg

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Whisk

Sauce Pan

Whisk in 2 tablespoons of butter until melted. Allow the filling to cool.

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Butter

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To assemble, place each cake layer down on a work surface, and place one hand lightly on the top of the cake. Use a serrated knife to slice the cake in half horizontally, with a light sawing motion, to create 2 layers from each cake (6 total layers).

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Brush crumbs from the layers.

Place a cake layer onto a serving dish, and spread with 1/6 of the filling; repeat with all the layers and filling, ending with a layer of lemon filling for the top of the cake.

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