EGGLESS LEMON
SEMOLINA CAKE
Eggless lemon semolina cake is a super moist lemon cake and summer is
the perfect time to bake this cake!!!
These days I am always in a mood to bake but my new found enthusiasm for
baking is marred by the frequent power cuts.
I love citrus fruits of which orange and lemon are my favorite flavours,
I can drink gallons of orange and lemon juice so it is quite natural that I
wanted to bake a lemon cake, two weeks ago I baked a vegan orange cake you can
read the recipe here.
Cool the cake completely before cutting unlike me I was so impatient
that I straight away cut the cake right after it was out of the oven because of
that I could not get even sized pieces.
Please remember to cool it down completely. Also you can increase the quantity of sugar
as per your taste.
This recipe is adapted from www.epicurious.com with few changes like the addition of semolina. Adding semolina gives a nice texture and
gives a nice crusty top.
Preparation Time : 25
mins
Baking Time : 22 minutes
Makes : 6”
cake
Ingredients:
·
1 cup all purpose flour/wheat flour
·
1/4th cup semolina/sooji
·
1/4th cup oil
·
1/2 cup lemon juice (juice of 6 – 7 medium
sized lemons)
·
1/2 cup powdered sugar
·
3/4th cup warm water
·
1½ tbsp lemon zest
·
1 tsp baking soda
·
A pinch of salt
Preparation:
Preheat
the oven for 10 minutes at 180 degrees.
Method:
Mix lemon juice, warm
water, oil, lemon zest along with powdered sugar thoroughly.
Sift the flour, baking
soda, and salt. Add semolina to sifted
ingredients.
Mix the dry ingredients
with the wet ingredients. (The mixture will become extremely fuzzy
because
baking soda reacts with lemon juice but it will settle down)
Let the mixture rest for 2
to 3 minutes. In the meantime grease and
dust the 6” baking tin.
Pour the cake batter in the
greased tin and gently tap on kitchen counter to avoid any air bubbles.
Bake the lemon cake for 22
- 25 minutes at 180 C. Every oven is
different so keep an eye as mine took 22 minutes to bake.
Poke a skewer or tooth
pick, if it comes out clean then the cake is completely done and if not then
continue to bake for few more minutes.
Let the cake cool down
completely before cutting the cake.
Sprinkle some icing sugar.
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