This cake is the perfect Spring and Summer treat perfect for breakfast, an afternoon snack, with a cup of tea, or with ice cream for dessert.
For other cake ideas try my Funfetti Sheet Cake, Apple Spice Cake, Blueberry Sour Cream Coffee Cake, or this Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake.
I love the scent of lemon especially when zesting it for the cake batter. I always recommend rubbing the sugar and lemon zest between your fingertips to create a lemon sugar because it helps release the natural oils from the lemon and infuse more lemon flavor into the cake.
This Lemon Poppyseed Cake is truly for my lemon dessert lovers! Other reader favorite lemon desserts are my Moist Lemon Pound Cake, Lemon Curd Cookies, Lemon Poppyseed Muffins, and Lemon Poppyseed Greek Yogurt Scones.
Why This Recipe Works:
The heavy cream and lemon simple syrup help to create an ultra-moist crumb. It’s easy to make It is filled with lemony goodness! The lemon zest infused into the sugar add more lemony flavors. The butter helps to create a rich, tender cake.
Granulated sugar: Creaming the sugar with the butter aerates the butter leaving bubbles that will capture the gases from the leavener (baking powder). More bubbles makes for a lighter texture and finer crumb. Lemon zest: I used the most common lemon, the lisbon, but you could also use a Meyer lemon, which has a sweeter taste profile. Softened unsalted butter: bring the butter to room temperature prior to creaming with the sugar. The ingredients blend more evenly and the cake will cook evenly too. Eggs: the eggs add richness and structure to the cake. Your eggs should also be at room temperature. Heavy cream: the fat content helps with the richness of this cake as well as the moistness. Milk: helps to hydrate the cake batter. I use whole milk. Cake flour: I love using cake flour since it gives this cake it’s light and fluffy texture. Baking powder: Be accurate when measuring baking powder. Too little and the cake will not rise as much as it should, too much baking powder and baked goods may fall. Poppyseeds: of course. Lemon extract: Using lemon extract adds a strong lemon flavor without adding bitterness.
