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Lemon Polenta Cake

Lemon polenta cake

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Adapted from a River Cafe Cookbook recipe Margaret Pomeranz’s Let’s Eat lemon polenta cake makes the most of seasonal citrus. 

Ingredients

  • 450g unsalted butter
  • 450g caster sugar
  • 450g ground almonds
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 6 eggs
  • zest of 5 lemons
  • juice of 1 lemon
  • 225g polenta flour
  • 1½ teaspoons gluten-free baking powder (if you’re sttrict about a gluten-free cake)
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • icing sugar, to serve

Method

Preheat the oven to 150°C. Grease a 30cm tin. Beat the butter and sugar until you have a light and fluffy mixture. Add the almonds and vanilla and beat well until it’s all combined. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Fold in the lemon zest, lemon juice, polenta flour and baking powder and salt. Pour into the tin and bake for 40-50 minutes, until golden brown. Turn out of the tin onto a wire rack to cool. Sprinkle with icing sugar to serve. (Adapted from the River Cafe Cookbook). 

 

Let’s EatFrom Let’s Eat by Margaret Pomeranz and Philippa Whitfield Pomeranz 

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