STARBUCKS LEMON CAKE (copycat recipe)

Ingredients

1½ cups flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
3 eggs, at room temperature
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoons lemon extract
⅓ cup of lemon juice
½ cup oil
zest of one lemon
GLAZE:
1 cup powdered sugar
2 tablespoons whole milk
½ teaspoon lemon extract

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 350 and grease and flour a 9×5 loaf pan.
In a large bowl, combine salt, baking soda, flour and baking powder and mix well.
In a medium bowl, combine eggs, vanilla extract, lemon extract, butter, sugar and lemon juice with a mixer until well mixed.
Now, pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and blend until smooth.
Add the oil and lemon zest and mix again.
Pour mixture into loaf pan and bake for 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Towards the end of the cooking time, put your glaze ingredients in a small bowl and wisk together until blended.
Remove cake from oven, let cool & pour glaze on top.

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