Authentic German Lemon Cake

This Authentic German Lemon Cake is super easy to make and a perfect recipe for baking beginners. Important is to use organic lemons and oranges as you need the zest. You will love this cake with a cup of coffee or your favorite tea. Perfect for a Sunday afternoon in the garden for Kaffee and Kuchen! Happy Baking!

If you have to bake Gluten free or Vegan here is a German recipe for a lemon cake without wheat, eggs, milk or butter:  Gluten Free Vegan Lemon Cake

Ingredients German Lemon Cake

250 g very soft butter or 200g butter and 50 ml coconut oil
150g sugar
1 dash salt
zest from 1 organic lemon
4 eggs (medium)
200 g flour
50g corn starch (pref. organic)
2 tsp Dr Oetker baking powder, 0.7oz
100 ml milk
bread crumbs (natural, no spices or flavors)

Glaze
150g powdered sugar
4 tbsp lemon juice

Baking Instructions German Lemon Cake

– Pre-heat oven to 300F (convection), 350F non-convection.
– Mix butter with sugar, salt, zest of orange and lemon, and beat until creamy.
– Add one egg after the other.
– Mix baking powder with flour and starch, add alternating with milk to dough.
– Grease a pound cake form and sprinkle with bread crumbs or layer with parchment paper (easier to remove the cake from the pan).
– Fill dough into the form. Spread even.

– Bake for 40-45 min on 300 F (do the test with a toothpick or skewer: poke the cake and when no dough sticks, the cake should be done).
– For the glaze mix powdered sugar with lemon juice until smooth.
– Take 4 tbsp of the glaze and add some natural edible yellow color and keep separate (optional).
– When cake is done and has cooled off, spread the white glaze on top of the cake.

Before you cut the cake in rectangles make sure the glaze is dry and firm.

INFO BAKING POWDER:
The ingredients of the Dr. Oetker baking powder are:
Sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, and corn starch.

Never use baking soda as substitute. If you use a different baking powder make sure it has similar ingredients as the one from Dr Oetker. Potato starch as an ingredient is acceptable. For using different baking powder there is no guarantee that the cake will be the same as the original German recipe is using Dr Oetker baking powder.

TIP
To get a special fluffy cake separate eggs first, mix egg yolks with butter, sugar, salt and zest, mix in remaining ingredients as mentioned in recipe; beat egg white until firm, and at the end add firm egg white, fold in carefully.