SUPER SOFT LEMON PARADISE CAKE, a soft and delicious sweet, perfect for breakfast, quick to make, buttery, great for dipping.
The paradise cake is a true delight, a perfect sweet for the whole family’s breakfast or snack, quick to prepare and super soft, it melts in your mouth.
To prepare the paradise cake you need to use very soft butter to obtain a dense cream that will give softness to the cake, and the potato starch helps make it even softer.
Of course, you can vary or enrich the cake with other ingredients such as cocoa or dark chocolate chips, or flavor it with orange instead of lemon.
Join me in the kitchen today for a super soft lemon paradise cake!
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Very cheap
- Preparation time: 15 Minutes
- Portions: 6-8
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Energy 253.52 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 38.12 (g) of which sugars 15.84 (g)
- Proteins 4.86 (g)
- Fat 10.10 (g) of which saturated 6.14 (g)of which unsaturated 3.86 (g)
- Fibers 0.54 (g)
- Sodium 28.56 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 50 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 3 1/2 tbsp butter
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup potato starch
- Half packet baking powder
- 1 tsp lemon zest
- 1/3 cup sugar
Preparation
For a 8-9 inch cake, double the dose
Take the butter out of the fridge a few hours earlier, it should be very soft.
Place the butter in the mixer with the sugar and work it with the K beater until it becomes soft like a cream
Add the eggs and work at maximum speed, add half of the sifted flour with the baking powder.
With the mixer running, add the lemon zest, the rest of the flour, and the potato starch.
Butter and flour an 8-inch pan, pour the mixture, shake the pan to avoid air bubbles, and bake.
Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F for 30-35 minutes, do a toothpick test and do not open the oven before 20 minutes.
Remove from oven and let cool then sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Bon appétit
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