This moist and fluffy Meyer lemon bundt cake is bursting with the brilliant, candy flavors of recent Meyer lemons. Take pleasure in a slice for breakfast or as a deal with with a cup of espresso or tea!
On the lookout for one other simple lemon bundt cake recipe for spring? Strive my lemon pistachio bundt cake made with pistachio instantaneous pudding and lemon zest.
Why You’ll Love This Meyer Lemon Bundt Cake Recipe
This lemon bundt cake is a mushy and buttery pound cake, crammed with the sweetness of Meyer lemons. Drenched with a creamy Meyer lemon glaze, it’s a simple dessert that you would be able to make for any event this spring. This cake is:
- Contemporary and zesty. The zest and juice from Meyer lemons fill this cake with irresistible sunshiney, citrusy flavors in each chew. It’s the right recipe for spring and summer time baking.
- Smooth and tender. My selfmade lemon bundt cake is deliciously fluffy on the day it’s baked, and dense and mushy within the following days. Mainly, it’s wonderful regardless of if you slice it!
- Simple to make. Better of all, you may make this Meyer lemon cake with just a few frequent pantry components. The batter is fast, and because it’s baked in a bundt pan, it’s spectacular with out a lot effort.
Components You’ll Want
These are the components you’ll must make this zesty Meyer lemon bundt cake. You’ll discover a printable checklist of components within the recipe card under the submit.
- Butter – Delivered to room temperature. I wish to bake with unsalted butter, however salted butter additionally works.
- Sugar – Common granulated sugar is greatest for a lightweight lemon cake.
- Eggs – This recipe calls for five entire eggs. I like to recommend bringing them to room temperature.
- Lemon Zest – Meyer lemons are completely different from common lemons (see under), and clearly, they’re the primary selection for this Meyer lemon cake! Nonetheless, when you can’t get your fingers on Meyer lemons, regular lemons can be utilized as an alternative.
- Flour – All-purpose flour works completely right here.
- Lemon-Lime Soda – Like in my 7UP cake and Mountain Dew cake recipes, I used soda as a leavening agent on this Meyer lemon cake. The carbonation helps the cake rise within the oven.
For the Frosting
- Powdered Sugar – Additionally known as confectioner’s sugar.
- Butter – Melted earlier than you begin.
- Heavy Cream – For the creamiest frosting, use full-fat heavy cream. You should use kind of relying on how thick you want your frosting.
- Lemon Juice and Zest – Once more, you’ll want the zest from Meyer lemons, in addition to the juice. Zest the lemons earlier than you juice them.
What Are Meyer Lemons?
I all the time go a bit buck wild when Meyer lemons are in season. This distinctive, juicy citrus is a cross between a standard lemon and a mandarin orange. Meyer lemons are sweeter and fewer bitter than common lemons, and so scrumptious. At any time when I spot them in my native market, I replenish.
When you’re additionally sitting right here, post-grocery buying, questioning, “What can I do with all these Meyer lemons?” Firstly, let’s make this unimaginable Meyer lemon cake! Then, take a look at my 23 Greatest Lemon Desserts.
The right way to Make a Meyer Lemon Bundt Cake
Making this mild and fluffy lemon bundt cake is really easy, even when you’re new to baking muffins! Try the steps under, and scroll to the recipe card for printable directions.
- Mix the moist components. Begin by beating butter and sugar collectively, then combine within the eggs, vanilla, and lemon zest.
- Add the flour and soda. Subsequent, slowly beat within the flour. As soon as that’s combined, add your lemon-lime soda.
- Bake. Pour the lemon cake batter right into a generously greased and floured 10-cup bundt pan. Then, you’ll bake the cake at 325ºF for 55-65 minutes.
- Cool and flip. When your cake is completed baking, let it cool within the pan for quarter-hour or so earlier than flipping it out onto a plate.
- Add the frosting. In the meantime, whisk collectively the components for the Meyer lemon frosting. As soon as the cake is cooled utterly, pour over the icing, and let it set for half-hour. You’re able to slice and serve!
Ideas and Variations
On the lookout for extra recommendations on easy methods to make the right Meyer lemon bundt cake from scratch? See under, together with some easy recipe variations.
- Totally different citrus. When you don’t have Meyer lemons, they are often substituted on this recipe with common lemons, oranges, or limes.
- Use ginger ale as an alternative. No lemon-lime soda? No worries. Swap it out for ginger ale. It really works like a allure!
- Add lemon curd. Fill your Meyer lemon bundt cake with a swirl of selfmade lemon curd (YUM!). Add half the batter to the bundt pan, dollop in some curd, and swirl it in with a knife. Pour the remaining cake batter over high, and bake!
- Add a glaze. Frosting not your factor? Make a simple Meyer lemon glaze as an alternative. Mix 1 cup of powdered sugar with a couple of tablespoons of Meyer lemon juice and extra lemon zest (just like the glaze I exploit for my orange pound cake). Whisk that collectively, and pour it over the baked cake.
Can I Make This In One other Pan?
When you don’t have a bundt pan, by no means concern. You’ll be able to nonetheless make a scrumptious Meyer lemon cake in an everyday baking pan. This recipe makes sufficient batter to suit comfortably in a 9×13″ baking pan, two commonplace loaf pans, or two 9″ spherical cake pans.
Observe that bundt cake batter baked in numerous pans will want completely different baking instances. Keep watch over the muffins whereas they bake and use a toothpick to verify for doneness. When a toothpick comes out of the middle of the cake clear with only a few crumbs, the cake is completed!
The right way to Retailer Lemon Bundt Cake
- To Retailer. Retailer this Meyer lemon bundt cake hermetic on the countertop for as much as 3 days.
- Freeze. At any time when attainable, I like to recommend freezing this cake earlier than you add the glaze. Wrap the cooled cake in a double layer of plastic wrap and maintain it frozen for as much as 2 months. Defrost the cake within the fridge or at room temperature, glaze, and serve.
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Description
This moist and fluffy Meyer lemon bundt cake is bursting with the brilliant, candy flavors of recent Meyer lemons. It’s excellent with espresso or tea!
Meyer Lemon Cake
- 1 1/2 cups butter, room temperature
- 3 cups granulated Sugar
- 5 eggs
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Zest of 2 medium Meyer lemons
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup lemon-lime soda
Meyer Lemon Frosting
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream (or extra relying on desired consistency)
- 1 teaspoon Meyer lemon zest
- 1 tablespoon recent squeezed Meyer lemon juice
- Preheat the oven to 325°F. Grease a 10- cup bundt pan with vegetable shortening liberally and frivolously mud with flour. Put aside. Alternately you’ll be able to coat the pan with nonstick baking spray.
- Within the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, combine butter and sugar collectively on medium pace for 3 minutes till pale in coloration and fluffy.
- Add within the eggs, one after the other after which vanilla and zest. Combine for an extra minute, scraping sides of bowl as needed, till easy.
- Flip the mixer pace to low and add in flour till included. Lastly, combine in soda till easy.
- Pour the batter into the ready pan and bake for 55-65 minutes, or till a toothpick inserted within the heart comes out clear.
- Enable the cake to chill within the pan for 15-20 minutes after which invert the pan onto a cake plate. Enable the cake to chill earlier than frosting.
- Frosting: In a big bowl, whisk collectively the powdered sugar, melted butter, heavy cream, lemon zest and juice till easy. Add extra cream if desired to attain a thinner frosting/icing. Pour evenly on high of the cake.
- Enable frosting to arrange, about half-hour.
Notes
- Retailer hermetic for as much as 3 days.
