Glazed Lemon Cake
1/2 lb. Butter
2 Cups Sugar
3 Eggs
3 Cups Unbleached Flour, sifted
1/2 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 Cup Buttermilk
2 Tightly Packed Tbs. Grated Lemon Zest
2 Tbs. Fresh Lemon Juice
1. Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees & Grease a 10" Tube Pan
2. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time beating well after each addition.
3. Sift together flour, soda, & salt. Stir dry ingredients into egg mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with dry ingredients.
4. Pour batter into prepared tube pan. Bake on middle rack of oven 65 min. or until cake pulls away from pan.
Lemon Icing
1 lb. powdered sugar
1 stick butter, softened
3 tightly packed Tbs. lemon zest
1/2 Cup fresh lemon juice
Cream sugar and butter. Mix in zest and juice. Drizzle over cooled cake.
You might not need it all.