A dreamy Lemonade Bundt Cake, infused with lemon and lightly dusted with confectioners’ sugar. No frosting or glaze on this cake! Each serving of this light, moist cake has a pour of a custard-like lemon dessert sauce. This is the ultimate lemon-y treat!
Place the rack in the middle position of the oven. Butter and flour a 10 to 12-cup Bundt pan. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
Set a mesh strainer over a large bowl and sift the flour, baking powder and salt together. Reserve.
In a pitcher or dish, combine the milk, vanilla, lemon juice and the zest. Reserve.
To a large mixing bowl, add the eggs, egg yolk and sugar and beat at high speed with an electric mixer until the mixture triples in volume and forms a ribbon when lifting the beaters. This will take 8-10 minutes. Gradually drizzle in the oil while beating.
Reduce the mixing speed to low and add the reserved milk mixture alternately with the reserved dry ingredients and mix just until combined. Do not over mix.
Scrape the batter into the prepared Bundt pan.
Bake the cake for 45 to 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out almost clean with a few crumbs on the tester.
Cool the cake on a wire rack for 15 minutes, flip upside down and remove the Bundt pan. Let cool completely on the wire rack.
Notes
The pastry brush works well to get into all the crevices of the Bundt pan
A baking spray can also be used to coat the Bundt pan
After filling the Bundt pan, tap the pan several times on the work surface to release any bubbles or air pockets.
When testing the cake, I check first at 47-minutes. If there is a tiny bit of crumbs on the testing stick I remove it from the oven. The residual heat will continue to bake the cake after it is removed.