Lemon Spice Amish Friendship Bread Visiting Cake
Lemon Spice Amish Friendship Bread Visiting Cake has a bright citrus flavor that is accented by an orange marmalade glaze. This dense cake is perfect for serving with tea.
Servings: 1 cake
Ingredients
- 1 cup Amish Friendship Bread Starter (or sourdough starter discard)
- 1½ cups flour
- 1 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cardamom ground
- ½ teaspoon ginger ground
- ½ teaspoon salt fine
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 lemon large
- 4 eggs large, room temperature
- ⅓ cup half and half (or heavy cream), room temperature
- 1½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 5½ tablespoons butter unsalted, melted and cooled
- ⅓ cup Marmalade Glaze
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° F. Grease and flour an 8½-inch loaf pan.
- Whisk dry ingredients together: flour, baking powder, cardamom, ginger and salt.
- In a large bowl add sugar, grate the lemon zest. With your fingers, rub the sugar and the zest together until moist and aromatic. Add the eggs, whisking after each one. Squeeze the lemon juice (about three tablespoons). Add lemon juice and half and half. Add starter and mix together.
- Gradually add the dry ingredients, whisking to incorporate into batter.
- Add in vanilla and melted butter. Batter will be thick. Pour into prepared loaf pan.
- Bake for 70-75 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Transfer to a cooling rack and let it cool for five minutes.
- When cool, loosen cake from the sides of the pan and turn onto cooling rack.
- Prepare the marmalade glaze. Brush glaze over warm cake and allow glaze to set for two hours.
- Enjoy!
Notes
Adapted from NY Times Cooking.
If you don't have access to ground cardamom, you can replace with ground cinnamon.