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Starbucks Lemon Cake

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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 27 minutes
Course Cake
Cuisine American
Servings 8
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Ingredients
  

For the Cake:

  • 4 lemons
  • 3 cups cake flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup 2 sticks unsalted butter
  • 3 cups superfine sugar
  • 6 eggs
  • 1 cup full-fat sour cream

For the Glaze:

  • 2 lemons
  • 2 cups powdered sugar

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 325F.
  • Zest the (clean) lemons – only the yellow stuff, not the white bitter pith.
  • Chop the top and bottom of the lemons to reveal the flesh of the lemons and continue with carefully removing the rest of the pith.
  • Cut the naked lemons to small Cubes and remove seeds and put them in a bowl.
  • In a small bowl, mix together sugar and the zest, cover and let it sit.
  • Add to a bowl the Baking soda, flour, and salt, mix and let it sit.
  • In a mixer – mix the butter and sugar for a few minutes until well blend. Start adding the eggs one by one slowly.
  • Gently mix the rest of the ingredients, lemon juice, and lemon cubes.
  • Grease a 16-cup tube pan. Transfer the mix to the pan.
  • Bake for about 30 minutes and test, bake longer if necessary.
  • Take out of the pan and let cool down.
  • Juice the remaining 2 lemons. In a small bowl, slowly add the powdered sugar to the and stir until smooth. It should look thick but pour-able.
  • Pour the glaze over the cake and let it harden.