Glazed Lemon Cake
Instructions
- Cake
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Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease a 10-inch tube pan.
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Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, blending well after each addition.
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Sift together flour, baking soda and salt. Stir dry ingredients into egg mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Add lemon zest and juice.
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Pour batter into prepared tube pan. Set on the middle rack of the oven and bake for 1 hour and 5 minutes, or until cake pulls away from sides of pan and a tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
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Cool cake in the pan, set on a rack, for 10 minutes. Remove cake from pan and spread on icing at once, while cake is still hot.
- Lemon Icing
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Cream sugar and butter thoroughly. Mix in lemon zest and juice; spread on warm cake.