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Perfect Sunday Damp Lemon and Almond Cake

April 17, 2011 By Kerry Cooks 8 Comments

This really is the perfect sunday afternoon recipe! And its definitely the antidote to fancy schmancy, fussy cakes featuring my now enemy, fondant! This cake is moist to the point of damp (see name of cake!), zestily almondy, refreshing and comforting all at once.

Here’s the recipe! Its adapted (I put in more ground almonds as I LOVE THEM) from one thats in Nigella’s cookbook How to be a domestic goddess. As someone who uses the internet for everything, I googled to find a recipe that fit the cake in my head, found this nigella recipe and then realised I did have the cookbook it was in! Although still probably quicker than reading through 25 cookbooks!

You’ll need

  • 225g very soft butter (zap it in the microwave if its not completely soft)
  • 225g golden caster sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 50g plain flour
  • 280g ground almonds
  • 1 tsp almond extract
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • zest and juice of two lemons (unwaxed)

As with most cakes, start by creaming the butter and sugar until its completely combined and light and fluffy (I choose to believe this is a good arm exercise). Add the eggs one at a time with a quarter of the flour each go and beat to combine. Then add the almond extract, vanilla, ground almonds, and lemony goodness. This is the point at which the batter starts to smell AMAZING. You may need to eat some of it, just to be sure of its awesomeness though. Totally normal.

Scrape out the batter into a greased cake tin – I used a loaf tin as you can see in the picture but you could use any kind you want. Pop in the oven at about 180 degrees (I was cautious as my oven can be a little over enthusiastic so I put it in at about 160 as the top of the cake browned a long time before the middle was cooked). Mine took over an hour, probably 65-70 minutes altogether.

And it was amazing. You could easily customise this cake by replacing the lemon with oranges, limes (zesty!) or a combination of fruits.

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Filed Under: Baking Tagged With: birthday cake, damp lemon and almond cake, Nigella

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  1. Debs says

    March 20, 2013 at 11:00 am

    Looks lovely!

    Reply
    • kerrycooks says

      March 20, 2013 at 11:05 am

      Thanks! It is a very tasty cake, love that almondy flavour and moistness it gives

      Reply
  2. toasty redhead says

    May 15, 2011 at 12:31 am

    Thank you for a great post.

    Reply
  3. Emma says

    April 17, 2011 at 7:50 pm

    I can confirm it’s deliciousness. Yum. X

    Reply
  4. rsmacaalay says

    April 17, 2011 at 11:26 am

    Lovely lemon and almond cake you have there, Yummy!

    Reply
    • kerrycooks says

      April 18, 2011 at 9:18 am

      thanks for the comment!

      Reply

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