Oma's Lemon Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup (2 sticks) BUTTER
• 1 c. sugar
• 1 Tbl. Baking Powder
• 1 3/4 c. unbleached flour
• 4 eggs
• juice of half a lemon... maybe a little more..
• 3/4 c. sugar
• grated peel and juice of 2 lemons and 2 oranges
• 2 c. powdered sugar
• few tablespoons lemon juice
• grated lemon peel

Instructions

**either butter or spray 8 inch round baking pan with non-stick spray... the butter flavor one is good
*****To guarantee that you get the cake out perfect every time...line the bottom of the pan with parchment before buttering or spraying pan

Cake Batter
Cream butter and sugar for 5 minutes.
Add eggs one at a time until incorporated after each one.
Scrape sides of bowl.
Combine flour and baking powder, add slowly to butter mixture.
Add lemon juice

Pour batter into prepared pan.. spread out evenly... pop into oven
Bake 50 to 60 min, until golden brown

meanwhile.... make the soaking liquid
Soaking Liquid
mix 3/4 c. sugar with juice and grated peel of lemons and oranges
heat in saucepan until sugar melts

When cake is done, take it out of the oven, and prick it all over with a fork. Slowly pour the soaking liquid evenly all over cake.
Let cake sit overnight on counter, covered.

Turn cake out of pan.

Icing
mix 2 cups of powdered sugar with lemon juice until it looks like elmer's glue... or maybe a little thicker
pour over cake
for bonus points... grate on some more lemon peel

Slice and devour