Christmas fir cake made from sponge cake with powdered sugar
Ingredients
- 1 lemon, unwaxed
- 240 g butter, softened
- 200 g icing sugar
- 4 eggs
- 280 g flour
- 6 g baking powder, approx. 2 tsp
- icing sugar, for dusting
Utensils
- Microplane grater
- Hand mixer
- Mixing bowl
- Kitchen brush
- Fir baking pan
- Icing sugar shaker
Instructions
- Wash the lemon in hot water and grate the zest.
- Mix the butter and sugar in a bowl.
- Stir in the eggs.
- Sieve the flour with the baking powder into the butter-egg mixture.
- Add the lemon zest.
- Mix everything to a smooth batter.
- Grease the fir baking tin a little with butter.
- Pour in the batter and smooth it out.
- Bake the fir cake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 35-40 minutes. Do a chopstick test!
- Turn the Christmas cake out onto a wire rack and let it cool.
- Serve the Christmas cake dusted with icing sugar.
With a few drops of green food coloring and lemon juice, you can mix a fir green icing and decorate the Christmas cake with it.
