Spicy Lemon Cake

Mildly sweet but spicy and aromatic, it's my own personal recipe for the perfect autumn cake and delicious sidekick of my afternoon coffee. Can't stop baking since I came up with this bad boy!

• Preparation Time: 20 mins
• Cooking Time: 50 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins
• Calories: 403 Calories

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 ½ cups white sugar
• 1 pinch salt
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3 cups cake flour
• 1 lemon, zested and juiced
• ½ cup milk, divided
• 1 pinch ground ginger, or to taste
• ½ cup whisky

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter a cake pan.

Step 2

Beat sugar and butter together in a bowl using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy; add eggs and beat on medium speed for 1 minute. Mix lemon zest into creamed butter mixture.

Step 3

Sift cake flour into a separate bowl. Add baking powder, salt, and ginger; stir. Beat 1/3 of the flour mixture into the creamed butter mixture on low speed until flour mixture is completely incorporated, about 1 minute.

Step 4

Stir lemon juice and 2 tablespoons milk into flour-butter mixture; mix on low speed until completely incorporated. Stir the remaining milk and whisky, alternating with the flour mixture, into the flour-butter mixture until batter is well mixed. Scrape batter into the prepared cake pan.

Step 5

Bake in the preheated oven until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean, about 50 minutes.