Hari Raya Lemon Buttermilk Bundt Cake

It's raya!! A bit more on that when I have transferred photos from my camera, but for now! Cake!

I decided to make lemon bundt cake last Friday while we were also in the midst of sprucing up the house for Hari Raya. I have been itching to make a cake for the longest time, and I have my cake flour and all ready to go. I had lots of cake choices because of my neverending baking ingredients, I could make blueberry cake, or marble cake, or just plain butter cake, or butter almond cake, but in the end I settled for lemon bundt because of my leftover lemons from like ages ago. I was surprised I could still use them! One had been zested and was sitting in my plastic container and somehow the lemon juice was still in there somewhere, and another hasn't been zested so perfect!

I dug up my previous bundt recipe, and here's what I used this time round:

3 cups cake flour, sifted
2 cups vanilla sugar (normal sugar would be sufficient)
250g butter, softened
2 tsp baking powder
4 eggs
1 cup buttermilk (milk + 1 tsp vinegar)
Zest of 1 lemon
1/4 cup lemon juice

Cream the butter and sugar. I made this cake by hand, no cake mixer. Mix in the eggs, one at a time till combined.
Mix in the flour in thirds, alternating with half of the buttermilk. So it's 1/3 flour, 1/2 buttermilk, 1/3 flour, 1/2 buttermilk, 1/3 flour.
Add in the lemon zest and lemon juice and mix well.
Transfer to a well greased & floured bundt pan. I didn't fill my 10 cup bundt pan to the brim, left some batter in a 7 inch pan so I can give that to my mum.
Bake at 170 degrees Celsius for about 45 minutes for the bundt, about 30-40 minutes for the 7-inch pan cake.

Cake batter awaiting its turn in the oven. I added some slivered almonds and it was a yummy addition!

Lemon bundt in my favourite heritage bundt pan yay!! The crust doesn't look so brown but the cake is done.

Here it is in it's swirly glory! I always have an inertia to cut this cake. It looks too perfect on its own.

Yummy tight crumbs, like pound cake! I think now I know the difference of using cake flour and plain flour. Love how this turned out! And the lemon flavour is just so refreshing! Totally would make this again. Lemons, you're gonna be a must-buy item for my fridge!

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