It’s been a while. And although I have more soup recipes, there is one cake recipe I want to put on here. Many of the recipes I have on file were researched when I was teaching Continuing Ed classes at a local college. I was, and still am, always looking for new recipes. Since most of classes were on Italian cooking, much of my research was through Italian cookbooks, websites and old family recipes. The following recipe comes from my research. No one I knew had made this so this was a new one on me.
I think it is a most refreshing cake. The ingredients are not difficult to find and even are things you would have on hand. Enjoy it alone, with coffee, as a light dessert after dinner, with fresh fruit or even a dusting of powder sugar. I gave this recipe to a friend of mine and she put a glaze with the juice of an orange and orange zest. If you would like a lemon glaze, try using 1 cup of powder sugar and lemon extract. Add the lemon extract a little at a time until you have the consistency of a glaze.
Butter and flour for coating the inside of a 12 cup Bundt pan
3 cups of flour
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
Grated zest and juice of 1 orange
Grated zest and juice of 1 lemon
¾ cups of whole milk
2 sticks of unsalted butter, room temperature
1-½ cups of sugar
5 large eggs
Powdered sugar for dusting
Pre heat oven to 350 degrees
1. Coat the interior of the Bundt pan with butter and dust lightly with flour, shaking out any excess flour
2. Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a large bowl.
3. Stir in zest of lemon and orange
4. Combine orange and lemon juice with milk and set aside to ‘sour’
5. At high speed, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
6. One at time, beat eggs into butter mixture.
7. Add 1/3 of flour mixture, mix well and then 1/3 of ‘sour’ milk and mix well. Repeat until all flour and milk have been mixed.
8. Pour cake batter into Bundt pan and place in center of preheated oven. Bake 45 to 55 minutes, or until golden brown and toothpick inserted into cake comes out dry.
9. Cool for 10 minutes then turn onto a plate.
