I had a whole fruit bowl full of some back yard lemons. Now what to do with all that yellowy goodness?
I thought of lemon meringue pie….
I thought of lemon cordial…
I thought of limoncello….
I thought of lemon and rhubarb pie…
I thought of lemon meringue icecream...
I did a lot of thinking about those lemons. But none of them was quite right. What to do with you my bowl of tarty yellow fruit?
Gourmet Traveller stepped in. Another winning recipe that really is very easy. The hardest part was squeezing the lemons, which was in no way tricky at all. Love a recipe that is just tasty and simple…and lemony of course.
cityhippyfarmgirl 
This looks amazing. We’re in excess of limes at the moment. Your lemon meringue ice cream looks fantastic too!
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looks amazing and looks like I could do some substitution to get a lemon cake to meet my health requirements too! Thanks for posting 🙂
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Helen I think it would be a very versatile recipe in that you could substitute a few ingredients for others and still some out with a winner. Happy baking.
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I recently purchased a kilo or 2 of organic lemons as our lemon tree is now a very young and so far fruitless one. I preserved them in salt for cooking chicken and other yummy roasts etc with but this cake is looking mighty tempting too.
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Robyn gave me five huge lemons …
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Lovely! I also have some scrummy lemon olive oil that I could drizzle over the finished cake instead of cream- Yummo!
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what stunning photos brydie..i love the look of your cake and it sounds so easy too..x
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Thanks Jane, dead easy cake.
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I think I might try this with many excess limes that I have on my tree. Thanks Brydie, lovely photos as always.
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I love the embroidered cloth you have in the first image. Stunning! Great use of some backyard lemons. I’m sure this cake was delicious xx
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This looks and sounds amazing.
I love lemon pound cake – and this is definitely a pound cake!
Great use of excess lemons!
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Did you use Meyer lemons or some other kind?
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I didn’t have any meyer lemons, just used regular ones which worked out just fine.
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What brilliant timing! My lemon tree is groaning and I’ve just come in from a big pick – now I know what to do with them.
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I’ve heard of lemon and olive oil cake and it conjures up images of Italy and thoughts of sunshine. Your cake looks like it might have delivered on both those things (albeit without any actual Italy…).
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I made this today, using lime juice from my tree and our own olive oil…so GOOD. Thanks for sharing Brydie, you always share great recipes!
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Yay! That’s awesome Jane. It’s such an easy recipe isn’t it. Your own limes, your own olive oil, I’m guessing your own eggs…That sounds like a pretty perfect cake to me.
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I almost forgot the eggs 🙂
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With so many lemons on my parents’ lemon tree, this is another recipe to add to the ‘must make’ list.
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Sounds like a really simple cake; but oh my what glorious pics Brydie. They look better and more inviting than the ones in the magazine. Simplistic beauty – love this type of cake. And like you I have lemons! Hubby and I took a rare trip to the farm together yesterday and we picked a bucket load of bush lemons. So I have your problem as of this morning. I’ll be making this cake for sure but oh my -lemon meringue ice cream sounds pretty darn good! x
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Dear Mariana, wasn’t it you that first got me on to the lemon curd and meringue? Insanely sweet combination that so works.
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