Luby's Lemon Sour Cream Cake

Ingredients

Cake

• 1 cup softened butter
• 1/2 cup solid all-vegetable shortening
• 3 cups granulated sugar
• 5 extra-large eggs
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1/4 cup whole milk
• 3 cups flour sifted with 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 teaspoons lemon extract
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Lemon Sauce

• 2 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
• 4 tablespoons melted butter
• 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice

Instructions

1. Heat oven to 325 degrees F.

Cake

1. In a large bowl, cream butter, shortening and sugar until smooth and fluffy.
2. Add eggs, one at a time, then add sour cream and milk, mixing until smooth.
3. Blend flour mixture into batter with a rubber spatula.
4. Stir in the extracts.
5. Pour into a greased and floured 10 inch tube pan and bake for 1 hour 30 minutes or until a tester inserted in center comes out clean.
6. Cool cake in the pan 10 minutes.
7. Remove the cake from pan and cool on a rack.
8. Drizzle with Lemon Sauce to serve.

Lemon Sauce

1. In a medium size bowl, whisk together sugar, butter and lemon juice until smooth.

Attribution

Luby's Cafeteria in Texas