ScarlettTorta Glassata Al Limone (Iced Lemon Cake)
April 9th 2008 15:35
Torta Glassata Al Limone (Iced Lemon Cake)
About Cake
Cake is a form of food that is usually sweet and often baked. Cakes normally combine some kind of flour, a sweetening agent (commonly sugar), a binding agent (generally egg, though gluten or starch are often used by vegetarians and vegans), fats (usually butter, shortening, or margarine, although a fruit puree can be substituted to avoid using fat), a liquid (milk, water or fruit juice), flavours and some form of leavening agent (such as yeast or baking powder), though many cakes lack these ingredients and instead rely on air bubbles in the dough to expand and cause the cake to rise. Cake is often frosted with buttercream or marzipan, and finished with piped borders and crystallized fruit.
INGREDIENTS
Serves 6 - 8
1 cup butter, softened
1¼ cups granulated sugar
1 lemon, grated zest
4 eggs
1¼ cups potato flour
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
For the icing
1 lemon, juice
1½ cups confectioners’ sugar
For the loaf pan
Butter, as needed
Flour, as needed
1. Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
2. Beat the butter and sugar together until light and creamy.
3. Add the lemon zest followed by the eggs, one at a lemon zest followed by the eggs, one at a time.
4. Stir in the potato and all-purpose flours, then the baking powder.
5. Butter and flour a 9 X 5-inch loaf pan and pour in the mixture.
6. Bake for about 1 hour.
7. Set aside on a cake rack to cool.
8. Beat the confectioners’ sugar with enough lemon juice to make a thick icing.
9. Spread on the cake and serve.
**From “The Encyclopedia of Italian Cooking” and “Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia”**
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