I made her this cake.
The recipe came from a magazine in the waiting room at the doctors clinic. It sparked my interest so I took a photo with my phone back in March. I found it a couple days before mums birthday while looking through photos and decided it was the perfect time to make it.
The cake travelled well on the dash of the car. While it's supposed to be served with yogurt, on this occasion I threw a can of cream in the esky. The kids were happy, and so was everyone else, the cake went down well after our BBQ lunch.
Lemon polenta cake with lemon verbena syrup
Lemon polenta cake Lemon verbena syrup
125 gr butter 100ml lemon juice
2/3 cup caster sugar ¼ cup caster sugar
2 eggs + 1 egg yolk lemon verbena sprig, leaves removed
100mls milk
1 cup SR flour
3 ½ tablespoons fine polenta
Rind of 1 lemon
Pinch salt
1 tablespoon icing sugar to dust + Greek yogurt to serve
Preheat oven to 175C. Grease a 26cm x 22cm tin.
Beat butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time. Beat well after each addition. Add egg yolk and mix until combined.
Stir in milk and flour alternatively, then polenta, lemon rind and salt. Pour into tin and bake for 20-25 minutes.
While cake is baking, place lemon juice, sugar and lemon verbena leaves with ½ cup water in a saucepan. Stir over medium heat to dissolve sugar. Boil for 3-4 minutes to thicken syrup. Strain syrup to remove leaves and keep warm.
Remove cake from oven and using a skewer poke about 20 holes in cake. Pour syrup over cake.
Serve warm or cold, dusted with icing sugar and a dollop of Greek yogurt.
Because it was so delicious, I remade it for a lunch dessert at home with a friend a week later. This time I served it with a dollop of Greek yogurt, and threw a couple rosemary flowers about. Still delicious!
Looks delicious.
ReplyDeleteOh yum, that looks and sounds delicious. Isn't lemon just the best flavour, savoury or sweet.
ReplyDeleteThat looks so yummy. Thanks for hosting and I hope that you have a wonderful week.
ReplyDeletelemon in any cake is marvellous. This one looks amazing. Love the pics. Denyse x
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