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    Lemon Ricotta Cake | Italian Lemon Ricotta Cake Recipe

    Last Updated On: Apr 6, 2025 by Aarthi

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    Lemon Ricotta Cake Recipe with step by step pictures. Traditional italian cake made using ricotta, lemon and eggs creates a tender sponge.

    Italian Lemon Ricotta Cake Recipe

    Lemon Ricotta Cake. One of my all time favourite cake..I could never get enough of lemon cakes. So here i am with another recipe of it. This time i added ricotta cheese in this and it turned out pretty damn delicious.

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    • How to Make Italian Lemon Ricotta Cake
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    • Lemon Ricotta Cake Recipe
    • Lemon Ricotta Cake with step by step pictures

    How to Make Italian Lemon Ricotta Cake

    • Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Grease a bundt pan or any pan with oil, sprinkle with flour and coat on all sides. Tap of the excess.
    • Take sugar, lemon zest in a bowl and mix well.
    • Add in eggs, lemon juice, vanilla, ricotta and whisk well.
    • Add in flour, baking powder, salt and mix well gently.
    • Now add in milk and fold gently.
    • Spoon this into the pan and bake for 50 to 55 mins.
    • Remove them and let it cool for 10 mins in the pan, now invert it on a cooling rack and cool completely.
    • Dust with icing sugar and serve.
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    The combination of lemon and ricotta works magic in this cake and creates a lovely soft and light texture in this cake.I really enjoy it so much. 

    You can use my homemade ricotta cheese recipe as well.

    1. Take milk in a sauce pan. Bring it to a simmer. Don't let it boil.
    2. Add in salt and mix well.
    3. Now add in lemon juice and mix gently till it curdles.
    4. Once it is curdled strain it. Let it sit for 5 mins.
    5. Now scoop it into a container and serve.

    If you want to make whole milk ricotta use a mixture of milk and cream.

    You can easily make this cake as orange cake, instead of lemon zest, add orange juice for lemon juice. 

    Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.

    Check out Homemade Ricotta Cheese

    If you have any questions not covered in this post and if you need help, leave me a comment or mail me @[email protected] and I’ll help as soon as I can.

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    Lemon Ricotta Cake Recipe

    Tender and lemony ricotta cake with step by step pictures. Delicious and soft crumb cake made using ricotta and lemon.
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    Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 30 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 40 minutes minutes
    Servings: 8 servings

    Ingredients

    • All Purpose Flour / Maida - 1 ¼ cup / 150 grams
    • Salt - ½ tsp
    • Baking Powder - 1 tsp
    • Sugar - 1 cup / 200 grams
    • Lemon zest - 1 tblspn
    • Eggs - 2
    • Ricotta Cheese - ½ cup
    • Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp
    • Melted Butter - ⅓ cup / 80 ml
    • Lemon Juice - 4 tblspn
    • Milk - ¼ cup / 60 ml

    Instructions

    • Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Grease a bundt pan or any pan with oil, sprinkle with flour and coat on all sides. Tap off the excess.
    • Take sugar, lemon zest in a bowl and mix well.
    • Add in eggs, lemon juice, vanilla, ricotta and whisk well.
    • Add in flour, baking powder, salt and mix well gently.
    • Now add in milk and fold gently.
    • Spoon this into the pan and bake for 50 to 55 mins.
    • Remove them and let it cool for 10 mins in the pan, now invert it on a cooling rack and cool completely.
    • Dust with icing sugar and serve.
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    Lemon Ricotta Cake with step by step pictures

     
    Take all your ingredients

     

    you need some ricotta cheese

     

    prepare you pan

     

    take sugar in a bowl

     

    add lemon zest

     

    mix well

     

    add lemon juice
     
     
    add eggs
     
    whisk well

     

    add melted cooled butter

     

    mix well

     

    grab your ricotta cheese

     

    add it in

     

    whisk well

     

    add in flour

     

    baking powder and salt

     

    fold gently

     

    add in milk

     

    fold gently

     

    spoon this into the baking pan

     

    bake till done
     
     
     
    dust top with icing sugar

    Serve
     
     

     

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    1. Anonymous

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      Hi..m a big fan of ur receipes.this one luks v delicious..surely shall try..jst hv to arrange ricotta cheese..any alternative for dat??

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      • Aarthi

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        so alternative for that

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    2. Regina Roy

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      Hey aarthi love all ur recipes, can I use self raising flour for this recipe?

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    3. Regina Roy

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      Hey aarthi love all ur recipes, can I use self raising flour for this recipe?

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      • Aarthi

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        Not sure about that.

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    4. Regina Roy

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      Hi aarthi really love all ur recipes, I have a query here can v use self raising flour instead of maida?...pls advise

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    5. suzanne Smith

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      I've tried the French Apple cake 3 times now and it was a big WOW by my guests. I don"k know what Maida flour is but I use Robin Hood flour also I used a springform pan and it was easy to remove from pan. i also made a butterscotch sauce with it. it was delicious. 1 tbs. cornstarch, 1 cup brown sugar, 2 tbs butter. 1 1/4 cup of boiling water/
      over medium heat add butter and sugar a then add cornstarch stir then add boiling water stir until it thickens. i add 1/4 cup of rum it's optional. when serving put some sauce over it. Mmm yummy!

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