A bright lemon snack cake that is dense but moist, soaked in a lemon syrup and topped with a lemon glaze. This one is for all you lemon lovers out there!
This recipe started out as a white cake but I couldn’t resist the lemon and ended up with this tangy, delicious beauty. I haven’t regretted one second of it! In fact, I’ve never regretted any lemon cake recipe I’ve ever made!
A snack is a small amount of food that you eat between meals, so if this is a snack cake recipe, you can technically have at least two, if not three, pieces in one day. One between breakfast and lunch, another between lunch and dinner, and since it’s a cake, one more for dessert! Follow my logic there? Ha!
What Ingredients are Needed for Glazed Lemon Snack Cake?
There is lemon in all parts of this glazed cake…lemon lemon lemon! We will start with the ingredients for the cake and then a few more for the syrup and glaze. Let me just state right up front is that you will want to have about 5-6 lemons to make all the components of the this recipe. Here is your grocery list:
Cake
- Dry Ingredients: All Purpose Flour, Baking Powder, Sugar, Salt and Lemon Zest
- Wet Ingredients: Butter, Vegetable Oil, Eggs, Milk, Vanilla, Lemon Extract, Almond Extract and Lemon Juice
Lemon Syrup
- Butter: adds richness
- Sugar: adds the sweetness and helps thicken the syrup
- Lemon Juice: adds flavor and tartness
- Vanilla: adds flavor
Lemon Glaze
- Powdered Sugar: adds sweetness
- Lemon Juice (or Milk): If you want bright white glaze, use milk. If you want more lemon flavor, go with the lemon juice.
The measurements for each ingredient are listed in the recipe card below.
How to Make a Glazed Lemon Snack Cake
I’m going to walk you through the steps of making this cake. It is super simple and you’re going to love the bright lemon flavor in every step. Let’s start with the cake…
Cake
- Preheat the oven and prepare an 8×8″ square baking pan with parchment.
- PRO TIP: Spray the pan, line it with parchment and then spray again.
- Mix the wet ingredients in a large bowl.
- Add the mixture of dry ingredients and mix until there are no big clumps.
- Pour batter into prepared pan and bake.
- While the cake is baking, prepare the syrup.
Lemon Syrup
- Combine all the ingredients in a small saucepan over medium heat until the better melts. Stir to combine.
- When the cake is finished, poke it everything with a toothpick.
- Pour the lemon syrup all over the top.
- Let the cake cool completely (at least an hour) before adding the glaze.