Low Fat Lemon Tea Cake Recipes

LEMON TEA CAKE

Steps:

• For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease an 8-inch-square pan. Cream the butter and sugar in a medium bowl until light and fluffy, using a hand mixer (about 3 minutes). Add the eggs one at a time while mixing, and then add the vanilla. Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt in a small bowl. Add half the flour to the butter mixture and combine. Add the lemon juice and zest, mix, and add the remaining flour, mixing again to combine. Pour into the prepared pan. Bake until the cake springs back when lightly pressed, about 20 minutes.
• For the glaze: Combine the confectioner's sugar, lemon zest and lemon juice and mix well. Mix until thoroughly incorporated. Pour over the cake.

LEMON TEA CAKE WITH HONEY GLAZE (LOW-FAT AND WHOLE-WHEAT)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat a loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray.
• To make batter:.
• Beat sugar, oil, eggs, lemon juice and zest with an electric mixer for about 1 to 2 minutes, or until pale and thick.
• Gradually pour in buttermilk, and beat until smooth.
• Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a separate bowl.
• Stir flour mixture into egg mixture with a wooden spoon.
• Pour the batter into prepared loaf pans.
• Bake 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until a toothpick inverted in the center comes out clean.
• To make glaze:.
• Warm lemon juice, honey and sugar in small saucepan over low heat until sugar dissolves.
• Pierce top of hot cake all over with wooden skewer or toothpick.
• Generously brush honey glaze over bread so it seeps into holes.
• Cool 20 minutes in pan. Unmold, and cool on wire rack before wrapping in plastic wrap to store.

LOW-FAT SUGAR-FREE LEMON CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F/175°C. Line a small springform pan with baking paper or lightly grease and dust with flour. Beat the egg whites with the salt until stiff. Set aside.
• Whisk together the yogurt, lemon juice, milk and melted butter. In another bowl, mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, lemon zest and sweetener. Add to the liquid ingredients and stir in briefly but vigorously. Finally, fold in the beaten egg whites.
• Pour batter into the smooth out and bake the cake for 25-35 minutes. It will remain very light white. Let cool and spread with frosting. For this, mix yogurt with lemon juice and sweetener to taste.

LOW-FAT LEMON TEA CAKE

Steps:

• Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in a large bowl. Make a well in the middle, set aside.
• Mix the rest of the ingredients together in another medium sized bowl; pour it in the middle of the dry ingredients, and stir JUST UNTIL IT IS MIXED TOGETHER. If you overstir it, it will become a tough piece of crap.
• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees and wait 2 minutes; grease a loaf pan(9x5x2 1/2 i think).
• Bake for about 45 minutes, until the crust is brown and if you stick a toothpick inside it will come out clean.

MOIST LEMON TEA CAKES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream the butter, cream cheese and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the lemon juice, extracts and lemon zest. Add flour; beat just until moistened., Fill greased miniature muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 325° for 10-15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. , In a small bowl, combine glaze ingredients. Dip tops of cakes into glaze; place on waxed paper to dry.

LOW FAT LEMON POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Zest and juice lemons, saving each separately. Combine flour, baking powder and salt in large mixing bowl. In another bowl whisk together the yogurt, lemon juice and vanilla.
• Add zest to sugar in large mixing bowl. Add butter and shortening to sugar mixture and beat until it's light and fluffy. Then add eggs in one at a time, mixing to combine.
• Alternate between incorporating the flour and the sour cream mixture into the butter/egg mixture. Three additions of flour, in between two additions of the sour cream mixture. Mix until just combined.
• Spray a loaf pan with non-stick spray, pour in batter and tap on counter to dislodge any bubbles. Bake for 60-70 minutes or until toothpick inserted into middle comes out clean. Remove to cooling rack.
• If you prefer a super-moist cake, poke deep holes with wooden skewer or similar tool to help glaze penetrate. Glaze while cake is still warm. If you prefer the glaze to coat the top of the cake, don't poke holes and allow cake to cool before glazing.
• To glaze, mix together confectioner's sugar and lemon juice and drizzle generously over cake. Serve alone, or with berries, reduced-fat Cool Whip, ice cream, you name it!