LEMON OLIVE OIL CAKE

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Ingredients:

  • 7 TBS unsalted butter, melted

  • 1 ¾ c AP flour
  • 1 ½ tsp baking powder
  • 1 cup sugar
  • Zest of 2 lemons, fine
  • Juice of ½ lemon or 1 TBS
  • 4 eggs, RT
  • 3 TBS milk, RT
  • 2/3 cup EVO

    lemon curd, see recipe

  • meringue, see recipe

Method:

Preheat oven 350°F. Prepare pan. Sift flour and baking powder. Set aside. Blend lemon zest and sugar by rubbing in zest with fingers. With mixer, beat eggs into sugar and zest on medium until mixture is pale yellow. With mixer on lowest speed, add milk, flour mixture, lemon juice, melted butter, and EVOO; beat until blended.  Pour into prepared pan. Bake until golden and about 25 min. Un-mold immediately onto wire rack to cool. Once cooled, fill with lemon curd and frost with meringue.




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