Currant Lemon Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Place currants, lemon juice, and butter in a pan and heat to melt butter.
• Cool slightly.
• Beat in eggs with a wooden spoon.
• Add sugar, rind, flour and milk. Mix well.
• Bake in a lined roasting dish at 160 C for about 1 hour.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350F°.
• CAKE: Pour 2/3 cup boiling water over 6 tea bags in a bowl; steep 10 minutes.
• Remove and discard tea bags; cool tea to room temperature.
• Stir in sour cream.
• Combine flour, baking powder, and salt, stirring with a whisk.
• Place sugar and butter in a large bowl; beat until well blended or about 5 minutes.
• Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Beat in vanilla.
• Add flour mixture and brewed tea mixture alternately to sugar mixture; mix after each addition.
• Spoon batter into a 10-inch tube pan coated with cooking spray.
• Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool in pan 15 minutes on a wire rack.
• Remove from pan; cool completely on wire rack.
• GLAZE: Pour 1/4 cup boiling water over 1 tea bag in a medium bowl; steep 5 minutes.
• Remove and discard tea bag.
• Add powdered sugar and juice to brewed tea, stirring well with a whisk.
• Drizzle glaze over cake.

Steps:

• Cream butter, lemon peel and lemon juice until light.
• Add sugar and cream until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs and blend well.
• In another bowl, mix flour and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture, beating well until blended.
• Stir in currants.
• Drop by teaspoonsful onto greased and floured baking sheet.
• Bake at 350* for 10 minutes or until set.
• Remove to a wire rack to cool.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Coat a 9-inch springform pan with nonstick cooking spray.
• Combine first 5 ingredients in a bowl; set aside.
• Combine 1/2 cup sugar and oil in a large bowl; beat at high speed of a mixer 2 minutes.
• Add yogurt, extracts, egg and egg white; beat 1 minute.
• Add flour mixture and beat at low speed until well blended.
• Fold in zest and cranberries.
• Pour batter into springform pan. Bake 25 minutes or until golden and cake springs back when touched lightly in center.
• Remove from oven.
• Pierce cake with a fork.
• Combine 2 tablespoons sugar and lemon juice; spoon over cake. Cool on wire rack.
• To serve, remove ring of pan and slide bottom onto a cake plate.

Steps:

• For Crust: In a medium bowl, sift together flour and baking powder.
• Mix in butter, sugar, egg yolks and lemon zest until mixture forms dough.
• Pat the dough evenly into the bottom of a 9" springform pan.
• Chill dough in pan for 25-30 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
• Bake in oven for 25 minutes, or until golden.
• For Filling: In a medium bowl, beat egg whites until stiff.
• Gradually stir in sugar and cornstarch; beat for 5 minutes.
• Fold currants into mixture and pour into warm crust.
• Bake in oven for 10 minutes, or until top is lightly browned.
• Cool completely before serving.