Easy Recipes
Italian Grandma’s Lemon Custard Cake
Ingredients
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
3 large eggs separated
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup unsalted butter melted
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp lemon zest
2 cups whole milk
3 egg yolks
1/4 cup cornstarch
2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp butter
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 175°C
2. Prepare cake batter and bake
3. Cool cake completely
4. Heat milk gently
5. Whisk sugar egg yolks and cornstarch
6. Slowly whisk warm milk into mixture
7. Cook until thickened
8. Add lemon juice vanilla and butter
9. Layer cake with lemon custard
10. Chill before serving
Notes
Use fresh lemon juice
Best served chilled
Dust powdered sugar before serving
- Prep Time: PT25M
- Cook Time: PT30M
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: Italian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 310
- Sugar: 24g
- Sodium: 120mg
- Fat: 15g
- Saturated Fat: 9g
- Unsaturated Fat: 5g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 38g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 5g
- Cholesterol: 110mg