Easy Lemon Ricotta Pound Cake

Easy Lemon Ricotta Pound Cake – a terrific lilliputian cake amongst enough of lemon flavor as well as an amazing moist texture. Lightly glazed amongst a lemon syrup for intense lemon tang.

I promised you lot some other recipe featuring the amazing, delicious as well as versatile ricotta cheese, as well as hither it is! Whether sweetness or savory, ricotta brings as well as hence much richness to our favorite recipes. Lately I pick out been buying a lot of ricotta cheese equally I exam as well as tweak our recipes for Raspberry Ricotta Breakfast Cake as well as these Light & Fluffy Ricotta Pancakes. It’s difficult not to pick out handgrip of some other tub every fourth dimension I stride human foot inward the grocery store! This is the quaternary as well as finally version of this cake recipe as well as it’s as well as hence expert as well as slow to make, you’ll endure looking for an excuse to portion it amongst all your friends as well as family.

 

Instead of a thick icing or super sweetness glaze, I topped this Lemon Ricotta Pound Cake amongst a uncomplicated syrup made from fresh lemon juice as well as a lilliputian sugar.

The lemon syrup is brushed on the top as well as sides of the warm cake. The syrup soaks into the cake as well as gives it a prissy shiny glaze as well as awesome lemon bite! Once dried, the glaze is non at all gummy as well as inward fact, this cake is almost ameliorate the adjacent day. Like all our pound cake recipes, it freezes beautifully as well as is terrific served amongst your favorite fresh fruit.

 

I monkeyed amongst the recipe for a land finally deciding on almost a 1/3 less saccharide from the master copy recipe. Our gustation testers loved each version but this finally recipe was the clear winner. It bakes upwardly beautifully showing off a golden brownish outside as well as super xanthous interior color. You won’t endure wondering where the lemon is inward this cake. It’s lemon-licious within as well as out!

 

If you lot pick out huckleberry fans inward your house, endeavour adding 1 loving cup of fresh blueberries earlier baking. I adore blueberries as well as lemons together, as well as they move beautifully inward this uncomplicated cake.

 

Enjoy a piece amongst a hot loving cup of tea inward the afternoon for a wonderful treat. Lemon cakes are some of the best desserts ever, as well as I know you lot volition concur afterwards you lot endeavour this one!

 

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Blueberry Lemon Ricotta Pound Cake

Prep Time

30 mins

Cook Time

1 hr

Total Time

1 hr 30 mins

 

A terrific lilliputian cake amongst enough of lemon flavor as well as an amazing moist texture. Lightly glazed amongst an intense lemon syrup for enough of seize amongst teeth as well as tang. 

Course:

Dessert

Servings: 8

Author: Tricia

Ingredients

For the cake:

• 
  1 3/4
  cup
  cake flour
  sifted afterwards measuring
  


• 
  1/4
  teaspoon
  salt
  


• 
  1/2
  teaspoon
  baking powder
  


• 
  1/4
  teaspoon
  baking soda
  


• 
  3/4
  cup
  ricotta cheese
  room temperature
  


• 
  zest of 1 lemon
  


• 
  juice of 1 lemon
  


• 
  1
  teaspoon
  vanilla
  


• 
  8
  tablespoons
  unsalted butter
  room temperature
  


• 
  1
  cup
  granulated sugar
  


• 
  4
  large eggs
  room temperature, lightly beaten
  


• 
  1
  cup
  fresh blueberries
  optional
  

For the lemon syrup:

• 
  juice of 1-2 lemons
  about 1/4 cup
  


• 
  2
  tablespoons
  granulated sugar
  

Instructions

1. 
   
   Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Lightly spray an 8 yesteryear iv inch loaf pan. (You tin also purpose a nine yesteryear v inch loaf pan - trim back the fourth dimension to 50-60 minutes as well as sentinel it carefully) Line the pan amongst a piece of parchment newspaper creating a sling. The newspaper should encompass the 2 long sides, the bottom as well as pick out a lilliputian overhang for slow lifting.
   
   


2. 
   
   Sift together the cake flour, salt, baking pulverization as well as baking soda. Set aside. In a minor bowl combine the ricotta cheese, lemon juice, lemon zest as well as vanilla. Set aside.
   
   


3. 
   
   In a large mixing bowl, combine the butter as well as saccharide amongst an electrical mixer on medium-high speed until shine as well as light, almost 3 minutes. Scrape downwards the sides as well as bottom of the bowl as well as blend some other thirty seconds.
   
   


4. 
   
   Add the beaten eggs inward 3 additions, mixing good afterwards each add-on until smooth. Scrape downwards the sides of the bowl equally needed betwixt each addition. With the mixer on low, add together one-third of the flour mixture as well as blend but until incorporated. Add one-half the ricotta mixture, scraping downwards the sides of the bowl equally needed. Repeat until you lot pick out used all the flour as well as ricotta mixtures. Using a prophylactic spatula, gently bend the batter pulling upwardly from the bottom of the bowl to ensure it’s good blended.
   
   


5. 
   

   If adding blueberries, gently bend into the batter taking tending non to crunch or outburst the berries. Scoop the batter into the prepared pan as well as lightly shine the top. Bake until golden brownish on top as well as a toothpick inserted into the optic comes out amongst a few moist crumbs attached, 60-70 minutes.

   
   


6. 
   
   While the cake bakes, ready the lemon syrup. Combine the lemon juice as well as granulated saccharide inward a minor saucepan. Heat on medium-high as well as stir until the saccharide is dissolved as well as it comes to a boil. Reduce the rut to medium as well as boil gently for 2 minutes. Remove from the rut as well as laid aside to cool.
   
   


7. 
   
   Remove the cake from the oven as well as cool for 20-30 minutes inward the pan. Using the parchment newspaper to assist, withdraw the cake from the pan as well as transfer to a wire rack. Brush the top as well as sides of the cake amongst all the prepared lemon syrup. Continue to cool for almost 2 hours earlier serving. Store inward an airtight container at room temperature. This cake also freezes beautifully.
   
   

If you lot dearest uncomplicated pound cakes, don’t immature lady our favorite recipes:

• Mini Coconut Pound Cake


• Pineapple Pound Cake


• Perfect Every Time Almond Pound Cake


• Chocolate Pound Cake


• Granny’s Pound Cake

Here are a few to a greater extent than amazing ricotta recipes from some of our favorite bloggers: Blueberry Lemon Ricotta Olive Oil Cake from Nutmeg Nanny;  Cassata Ricotta (Sponge Cake amongst Ricotta) from A Family Feast;  Chocolate Chip Ricotta Cheesecake from Amanda’s Cookin’; as well as finally don’t immature lady this gorgeous Lemon Ricotta Cake amongst Candied Lemons from Seasons as well as Suppers.

Thanks as well as hence much for stopping by!

Tricia

Source: savingdessert.com