Lemon Cornmeal Cake

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Photo: Lennart Weibull
Prep Time:
25 mins
Total Time:
3 hrs 15 mins
Servings:
8
Yield:
1 9-inch cake

Extra-virgin olive oil, eggs, and milk make this Italian-inspired lemon cornmeal cake extra-moist. And it's gluten-free, to boot. Martha made this recipe on "Martha Bakes" episode 810.

Ingredients

  • ½ cup milk

  • Finely grated zest and juice of 1 lemon

  • 1 ½ cups raw almonds, finely chopped

  • 1 cup natural cane sugar

  • 1 cup fine yellow cornmeal

  • 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder

  • ½ teaspoon baking soda

  • ½ teaspoon coarse salt

  • ¾ cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for pan

  • 3 large eggs, room temperature

  • 1 teaspoon pure almond extract

  • Confectioners' sugar, for dusting

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Combine milk and lemon juice in a bowl; let stand until thickened, about 5 minutes. Pulse almonds, cane sugar, and zest in a food processor until finely ground. Transfer mixture to a large bowl; stir in cornmeal, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add oil, eggs, and almond extract to milk mixture, and whisk until combined. Stir into cornmeal mixture.

  2. Brush a 9-inch springform pan with oil. Pour batter into pan. Bake, rotating pan halfway through, until cake is golden and a tester inserted in center comes out clean, about 55 minutes. Let cool completely in pan on a wire rack. Unmold and dust with confectioners' sugar just before serving. (Cake can be kept, covered, at room temperature up to 2 days.)

Originally appeared: Martha Stewart Living, May 2015

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