Lemon Bundt Cake for The Birthday Girl

The other day I was in a waiting room passing time for my upcoming appointment. I started thumbing through the latest issue of Better Homes and Gardens and noticed a feature they call "BHG throwback".  The title 1944 caught my eye...the year my mom was born.

Today is her birthday...Happy Birthday Mom!!  This collage was made by my grandmother in one of her great scrapbook/photo albums she made for me.  I love seeing all the fun photos of my mom and me, especially all the different fashions and hairstyles from "back in the day".  As you recall, I shared with you my quest to duplicate my mom's Sunday Night Pot Roast a few years ago.

My mom also is a fan of lemon flavoring and has her sweet tooth moments.  In her honor today, I made a new lemon bundt cake, from the BHG magazine I was perusing through that day.

I even purchased a new fun shaped bundt pan to test out...super cool designs.  I forsee a lot of bundt cake experiments in the future.

Lemon Bundt Cake
Courtesy of Better Homes and Gardens, May 2016

3 eggs
1-1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup butter, melted and cooled
1 Tbsp. lemon extract
2 Meyer lemons or lemons, zested (2 tsp.)
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups granulated sugar
1-1/2 tsp. baking powder

Lemon Glaze:
1 cup powdered sugar
Meyer lemon juice or lemon juice (about 2 Tbsp.)

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.  Coat a 10-inch fluted tube pan with nonstick spray for baking.  In a very large mixing bowl whisk together eggs, milk, oil, butter, extract, and zest.  Add flour, sugar, baking powder, and 1 tsp. salt.  Whisk until smooth.  Pour into prepared pan.

Bake about 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near center comes out clean.  Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 minutes.  Remove cake form pan; cool.  Drizzle with glaze.

For the Lemon Glaze; in a bowl stir together powdered sugar and lemon juice (enough to make drizzling consistency).

After glazing the cake, sprinkle about 1 Tbsp. lemon zest over cake.

This is what happens when I get too busy to photograph a 

recipe right after it is completed.  My family thought they

needed to "test it out" before I published it...and I thought

my dogs were bad!!