A sponge cake and custard all in one recipe! No frosting! No filling! ZoeBakes is the source of this recipe.
The Meyer lemon looks like an orange, but when the juice is baked up in the cake, it turns yellow like a lemon. It’s a cross between a lemon and a mandarin orange and is a milder citrus than lemon but not as sweet as an orange. This fruit is named after Frank Nicholas Meyer who introduced the plant in the US from China.
Ingredients
- Soft butter for ramekins
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1/4 cup fresh Meyer lemon juice, or traditional lemon, grapefruit, lime or a combination of the 3 juices
- 4 large eggs, separated
- 1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour (spoon and sweep into the measuring cup)
- 3/4 cup sugar plus extra to dust the ramekins
- pinch of salt
- zest of 2 Meyer lemons, or 2 limes or 1 grapefruit
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees
- Butter heavily 6 to 8 ramekins with soft butter
- Dust buttered ramekins with sugar
- Lay a kitchen towel in the bottom of a roasting pan
- Place the ramekins on top of the towel
- In a bowl whisk together the flour and 3/4 cup sugar and salt
- Rub the zest into the flour mix with your fingers
- Set aside
- In a bowl whisk together the buttermilk, lemon juice and egg yolks
- Set aside
- In a bowl beat together the egg whites with 1 tablespoon sugar until just soft peaks. Do not over beat or it will not mix into the batter
- Whisk flour mix into the buttermilk mix
- Fold in the egg whites 1/3 at a time with a rubber spatula
- Ladle the batter into the ramekins
- Fill the roasting pan with hot water up to the middle of the ramekins
- Tent with foil making sure the foil does not touch ramekins
- Bake 20 minutes and then remove foil
- Bake another 20 minutes
- Remove ramekins from oven and from the roasting pan. Cool on racks to room temperature
- The Pudding Cakes can be served warm, room temperature or cold.
- They can be made ahead and stored in the ramekins
- You can serve them in the ramekins or invert them on to serving plates
- They look best when inverted because the pudding appears on the top
- To invert, run a knife along the perimeter of the ramekin. Invert on plates
- You can serve with a berry jam but I prefer without!
- Voila!
Prepare the ramekins and roasting pan
Rub the zest into the flour mix with your fingers
Combine the buttermilk, egg yolks and lemon juice
Whisk flour mix into buttermilk/egg mix
Fold beaten egg whites into batter
Ladle batter into prepared ramekins
Prepare to place roasting pan in the 325 degree F oven
Make a tent of foil over the roasting pan making sure not to touch foil to the batter
Lemon Pudding Cake inverted on a plate!
Voila!
nina in the kitchen 