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Lemon Loaf Cake

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This Lemon Loaf Cake is easy, delicious and full of lemon flavor! 

This Lemon Loaf Cake is easy, delicious and full of lemon flavor!

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Today I’m so pleased to share this delicious Lemon Loaf Cake recipe from the new cookbook, Kid Chef Bakes. (Affiliate link.)

Kids Chef Bakes Cookbook

This wonderful cookbook is written by my friend and fellow food blogger, Lisa Huff from The Snappy Gourmet. Inside Kid Chef Bakes you’ll find the recipe for this sweet and tender Lemon Loaf Cake, plus 75+ other sweet and savory recipes, baking tutorials, recommended kitchen tools and supplies, and more!

Kids Chef Bakes Cookbook

Lisa is a mom herself to two children, and her cookbook strikes the perfect tone for teaching kids ages 8-13 (or so) how to bake without being overly juvenile. Kid Chef Bakes includes recipes for cookies, cakes, pizza, bread, pies, pastries and more – so beginner chefs will find plenty of recipes they will love to try baking.

Our almost 11-year-old daughter loves this cookbook, and she was so excited to bake the Lemon Loaf Cake recipe from the book – all by herself!

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The recipe instructions are well organized and easy to follow, and Lisa includes lots of helpful tips along the way that help aspiring bakers of any age see success in the kitchen.

Lemon Loaf Cake - A Family Feast

This Lemon Loaf Cake recipe came out perfectly for our daughter – a moist lemon and vanilla cake that baked up light and tender. A sweet-tart lemon icing was the perfect topping.

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This Lemon Loaf Cake is easy, delicious and full of lemon flavor!

You can order your own copy of Kid Chef Bakes on Amazon now, and makes a great gift for any aspiring baker in your life!

We love seeing what you made! Tag us on Instagram at @afamilyfeast or hashtag #afamilyfeast so we can see your creations!

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Lemon Loaf Cake - A Family Feast
★★★★★ 4.7 from 10 reviews

Lemon Loaf Cake

Recipe from Kid Chef Bakes reprinted with permission by Rockridge Press.

Yield: 1 loaf (12 servings) 1x
Prep: 20 minutesCook: 45 minutesTotal: 1 hour 5 minutes
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Ingredients

For the Cake

Butter or shortening, for greasing the pan

Flour, for dusting the pan

1/3 cup (2% or whole milk)

2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice

1 ½ cups all-purpose flour

¼ teaspoon baking powder

¼ teaspoon baking soda

¼ teaspoon table salt

½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature

1 cup granulated sugar

2 large eggs, at room temperature

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

1 tablespoon freshly grated lemon zest

For the Glaze

¾ cup confectioners’ sugar

2 teaspoons lemon juice

1 tablespoon milk (2% or whole), plus more as needed


Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and lightly flour a loaf pan. Set aside.

In a small bowl, add 1/3 cup of milk and 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, and stir to combine. Let sit about 10 minutes. (The mixture will curdle into sour milk.)

In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

In a large bowl, beat the butter with an electric mixer on medium speed for about 10 seconds, or until smooth.  Beat in the granulated sugar until well blended and light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, beating after each egg is added. Beat in the vanilla and lemon zest.

Alternate adding the flour mixture and the milk mixture to the butter mixture, beating on low after each addition, until the batter is just combined.

Pour the cake batter into the prepared pan.  Bake in preheated oven for 45 minutes (or until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean).  Cool slightly, then remove the cake from the pan to finish cooling on a wire rack.

Once the cake has cooled, make the glaze. In a medium bowl, whisk together the confectioner’s sugar, 2 teaspoons of lemon juice, and 1 tablespoon of milk. (Whisk in more milk as needed until thick and spreadable.  Add more confectioner’s sugar if necessary.)

Spoon the glaze over the top of the cake, so it can drizzle down the sides.

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Martha is part of the husband-wife team that creates A Family Feast. She loves to cook and entertain for family and friends, and she believes that serving a great meal is one of the best ways to show someone that you care. Martha is a self-taught home cook, who loves to read cookbooks and try new recipes. After a decades-long career in business and online marketing, she now runs A Family Feast full-time. Her specialties are baking, desserts, vegetables and pasta dishes.

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  1. Lytle Markham says

    Posted on 10/7/17 at 3:42 pm

    My nephew, Elias Babuca, would love to win this free cookbook for kids. Elias has attention issues, but when directed to something he really likes, he calms way down! He loves to help in the kitchen!

    Reply
  2. Jor Arambel says

    Posted on 10/7/17 at 9:28 am

    My grandson wants to be a great
    chef

    Reply
  3. Kim Cathey says

    Posted on 10/7/17 at 1:28 am

    I would give the cookbook to my nephew’s daughter, who will be 10 later this year. She has started making things on her own and this cookbook would be great to give to her so she could expand her horizons. And besides, I could always ask to borrow it. 😉

    Lemon is one of my all-time favorite flavors and I’m still on the hunt for the “perfect” (according to me!) lemon loaf, and this one looks like it could be “the one.”

    Thank you!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
  4. Annette says

    Posted on 10/7/17 at 1:13 am

    My cousin’s three children love to cook and bake from the 5 year old to the 14 year old. I’m amazed at them. I think they’d enjoy this cookbook.

    Reply
  5. Kimmy says

    Posted on 10/6/17 at 7:47 pm

    My daughter, Chloe, took a baking class earlier this year and loved it. She is 7 and says she wants to be a baker when she grows up. She would love this!

    Reply
  6. christina purvis says

    Posted on 10/6/17 at 6:09 pm

    My daughter is 6 and loves to help in the kitchen. This cookbook would be wonderful!

    Reply
  7. Mary says

    Posted on 10/6/17 at 5:33 pm

    Beautiful daughter! This recipe looks perfect for kids learning to cook. Easy directions and simple ingredients….perfect for my granddaughter. She loves coming over to cook with me, this would be a great gift for her.

    Reply
  8. Dani Johnson says

    Posted on 10/6/17 at 2:55 pm

    My 10 year old granddaughter loves to help me in the kitchen. This cookbook would be perfect for her to begin cooking on her own!

    Reply
  9. Jane Grabenstein says

    Posted on 10/6/17 at 2:45 pm

    I haven’t been a kid for a very long time, but I am a bit of a timid baker, so I would use this boo for myself! 🙂

    Reply
  10. Shannon Deaton says

    Posted on 10/6/17 at 2:08 pm

    This is going to be a great book for my nephew. It looks like this will help with his baking. He is turning out to have a real interest in cooking and is surprising me with how good he is already!

    Reply
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