Sourdough lemon cake

Sourdough for breads, yes, of course... 

but how about sourdough for cakes?

Yes! Totally possible and rather nice!

Ingredients:

Flour 100g

Starter 60g

Egg 1

Sugar 30g

Butter (melted) 30g

Honey 1tbsp

Lemon 1

Because the natural yeast in the sourdough starter is used as the rising agent, making cakes with sourdough starter takes much longer time than without. It took me about 4 hours before I put my cake in the oven. Yes I know, it's bit long but don't rush, the key to success is 'patience'.

And when you see the nicely risen fluffy cake, you know it was worth for all that waiting time... ;D

I tried using as little sugar as possible with this recipe without making it a lemon tasting bread-like thing (it's still called 'cake' so got to have some level of sweetness, right?). If you like your cake to be sweeter, add a few more tablespoons of sugar. ;)

Hope you all enjoy 'something-a-bit-different' cake with sourdough. :-d