Lady Bird Johnson's Lemon Bundt Cake
"And there is lemon extract, I'm just saying. President Johnson liked Fresca a lot which was citrus. I found another version of this so I'm putting it in parentheses"
Original is 8 servings
Ingredients
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- Lemon Icing
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Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (474.2 g)
- Calories 1461.3
- Total Fat - 89.5 g
- Saturated Fat - 38.5 g
- Cholesterol - 2700.4 mg
- Sodium - 559.8 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 123.3 g
- Dietary Fiber - 4.9 g
- Sugars - 85.3 g
- Protein - 45 g
- Calcium - 499.8 mg
- Iron - 8.4 mg
- Vitamin C - 26.1 mg
- Thiamin - 0.6 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven at 325 degrees F.
Step 2
Cream butter and sugar until fluffy.
Step 3
In a separate bowl, beat egg yolks until light and lemon-colored.
Step 4
Blend into creamed mixture.
Step 5
Sift together flour, baking powder and salt and resift 3 times.
Step 6
Add sifted ingredients to creamed mixture in thirds, alternating with milk. Beat the batter thoroughly after each addition.
Step 7
Add vanilla extract, lemon rind and lemon juice and beat 2 minutes.
Step 8
Bake in greased 10-inch Bundt pan in preheated oven at 325 degrees F for 1 hour(or in 9 inch layer pans (3?) at 375 degrees F for 20 minutes.
Tips
No special items needed.