Want an easy and delicious lemon cake recipe? Yeah me too! That’s why I’m so glad I found this! It’s a very easy and quick recipe with fresh lemon aroma and a slightly sour flavor.
For me, it’s the perfect snack with my morning coffee and my afternoon tea. Sometimes, instead of baking it as a cake, I bake it as cupcakes. It’s up to you if you want something more playful. Plus, I love to add some more ingredients and create different variations with the same recipe.
You need only six basic ingredients that definitely are in your pantry already and a few minutes to make the lemon cake that will become your favorite! Are you ready to bake?
Recipe
Yield: 6 pieces
Prep Time: 15 min
Cook Time: 50 – 60 min
Total Time: 65 – 75 min
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 ½ cup all-purpose flour
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ cup sugar, brown or white
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup butter softened
- ½ cup milk or unsweetened plant-based milk
- 2 tbsp lemon zest (2 big lemons)
- ¼ cup lemon juice
- 1 tbsp chia seeds
- 1 tbsp poppy seeds
Lemon Glaze:
- 4 tbsp lemon juice (1 small lemon)
- 4 tbsp sugar, brown or white
- 4 tbsp warm water
Directions
Cake mixture
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Spray a small pan with butter and sprinkle with flour.
- Into a bowl add the flour, salt, baking powder, and mix them.
- In another bowl put the eggs, sugar, and butter and mix them with a hand mixer for 3 – 4 minutes until they become soft and fluffy.
- Slowly add into your fluffy mixture the ingredients of the first bowl.
- Last, add the milk, lemon zest, lemon juice, and the seeds and mix them for 3 more minutes until they become one soft mixture.
- Put it into your pan.
- Bake for 50 – 60 minutes.
Lemon blaze
- In the pot, on medium-high heat, add the water and the lemon juice and let them warm.
- Before they boiled add the sugar and stir until the sugar dissolves.
Last step
- When it is ready, take it out of the oven and pierce it with the fork to the bottom of the pan.
- Pour the lemon glaze over it.
- Let it ten minutes to sit and it is ready to remove it from the pan if you want!
Notes
- Storage: You can leave your lemon cake up to three days at room temperature and up to a week in your fridge.
- Variations:
- Add 1/2 cup chocolate drops.
- Add 1/2 cup crushed nuts.
- Add homemade strawberry jam as a topping.
- Served:
- With a cup of tea.
- With a cup of coffee.
- With a glass of fancy water.
Enjoy your delicious lemon cake!

*I am not a professional nutritionist, this is an estimated nutritional chart.
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Easy Lemon Cake
Ingredients
Cake mixture:
- 1 ½ cup all-purpose flour
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ cup sugar brown or white
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup butter softened
- ½ cup milk or unsweetened plant-based milk
- 2 tbsp lemon zest (2 big lemons)
- ¼ cup lemon juice fresh
- 1 tbsp chia seeds
- 1 tbsp poppy seeds
Lemon Glaze:
- 4 tbsp lemon juice 1 small lemon
- 4 tbsp sugar brown or white
- 4 tbsp warm water
Instructions
Cake mixture:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Spray a small pan with butter and sprinkle with flour.
- Into a bowl add the flour, salt, baking powder, and mix them.
- In another bowl put the eggs, sugar, and butter and mix them with a hand mixer for 3 – 4 minutes until they become soft and fluffy.
- Slowly add into your fluffy mixture the ingredients of the first bowl.
- Last, add the milk, lemon zest, lemon juice, and the seeds and mix them for 3 more minutes until they become one soft mixture.
- Put it into your pan.
- Bake for 50 – 60 minutes.
Lemon blaze:
- In a small pot, on medium-high heat, add the water and the lemon juice and let them warm.
- Before they boiled add the sugar and stir until the sugar dissolves.
Last step:
- When your cake is ready, take it out of the oven and pierce it with the fork to the bottom of the pan.
- Pour the lemon glaze over it.
- Let it ten minutes to sit and it is ready to remove it from the pan if you want!
Notes
- Storage: You can leave your lemon cake up to three days at room temperature and up to a week in your fridge.
- Variations:
- Add 1/2 cup chocolate drops.
- Add 1/2 cup crushed nuts.
- Add homemade strawberry jam as a topping.
- Served:
- With a cup of tea.
- With a cup of coffee.
- With a glass of fancy water.

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