# Cake au citron

It's a lemon cake recipe, a real bestseller.

- Cuisine: French
- Category: Baked Goods
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 230 gr farine
- 6 gr levure chimique
- 120 gr beurre mou
- 240 gr sucre
- 2   citrons
- 200 gr crème liquide entière
- 2   oeufs
- 15 gr sucre
- 50 gr eau
- 50 gr jus de citron
- 50 gr sucre glace
- 20 gr jus de citron

## Instructions

1. Zest two lemons.
2. Put softened butter, sugar and lemon zest in the bowl of the mixer and mix with the leaf until a creamy texture is obtained.
3. Put all the preparation in the center.
4. Add the eggs one by one, mixing each time after each incorporation.
5. Then add the flour and the yeast and mix again.
6. Once the mixture is well homogeneous, add all the liquid cream and beat until fully incorporated.
7. Empty it into a pastry bag.
8. Take a 22 cm cake pan that has been previously buttered and floured, and put all the cake batter inside.
9. Stop about half a centimeter from the edge because it will swell during baking.
10. Add a line of softened butter in the middle before baking to help the cake burst and make it even more gourmet.
11. Bake for 1 hour at 145 degrees.
12. Prepare the soaking syrup for the cake.
13. Collect the juice from the lemons and filter it through a tami.
14. Add water and sugar, bring to a boil and set aside.
15. Once the cake is cooked, remove it from the mold.
16. Take the mold that has cooled beforehand and line it with plastic wrap.
17. Put the cake back inside and soak it while it's hot.
18. Simply close it with plastic wrap and leave it like that until it cools down completely.
19. Last step the icing, very easy, a little icing sugar, a little lemon juice, mix.
20. Take the cake that has cooled, place it on a wire rack.
21. Pour all the icing on top, spread it evenly with a brush, add some lemon zest and put it back in the oven for 2 minutes at 170 degrees.
22. Let it cool completely to taste.

## Equipment

- knife
- grater
- KitchenAid
- spatula
- bowl
- whisk
- pastry bag
- cake mold
- citrus squeezer
- tami
- film alimentaire
- brush

## Tips

- Preferably use organic and untreated lemons for best results.
- The dough should be emptied into a pastry bag to work more cleanly.
- The cake should be warm when soaked.

## Source

- Original video: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdrtD9do/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/a672966e-80a9-46fb-b957-7e84b9131ac2
- Extracted: 2025-05-19

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