One bowl Lemon Ricotta Cake
This delicious lemon ricotta cake loaf will bring a ray of sunshine into your house! It’s called a lemon ricotta loaf, but it really is a lemon ricotta cake that is baked in a loaf tin for easy slicing. It’s addictive and so simple to make. The best thing is there is minimal cleanup needed because its one-bowl!
I first tried this yummy loaf cake at a local cafe and was instantly hooked to the fresh citrus-y and lemon-y flavour! Lemon flavoured desserts are my soft spot (I adore Lemon Crisps) I was left wanting for more and before I realised I kept thinking about it constantly! I just had to figure out how to make this delicious lemon loaf for myself. After many tries and tweaks, I finally ended up with a recipe I’m happy with!
Minimal Equipment
You don’t need much equipment to make this lemon loaf at all. You will only need a whisk, mixing bowl, loaf or cake tin and a grater/ zester.
If you don’t have a loaf tin, you can definitely use a muffin tin or cake tin. You will just have to adjust the baking time according to the size of your tin, if using a regular muffin tin, try baking it for 20 mins.
Flexible recipe
You can play around with this recipe a bit. I think it will taste quite delicious if you used orange instead of lemon, perhaps even sprinkle in some poppy seeds for an orange and poppy seed loaf. I have also tried substituting the ricotta with greek yoghurt (when I was desperate for this cake). It’s just as yummy! But the texture does change to be less crumbly and much more moist. Give it a try and let me know what you think!
Lemon Ricotta loaf
Equipment
- Mixing bowl
- Whisk
- Zester
- Loaf tin
Ingredients
- 1 Lemon
- 250 g Ricotta cheese
- 3 eggs
- 50 ml Olive oil
- 1 pinch Salt
- 220 g Sugar caster
- 200 g Flour Plain
- 2.5 tsp baking powder
Instructions
- Line your loaf tin (mine is approx. 10cm x 10cm x 19cm) and preheat the oven to 170C.
- Whisk the eggs and ricotta well in the mixing bowl. Drizzle in the olive oil and mix well again.
- Zest and juice the lemon, add the juice and zest into the mixing bowl along with the sugar and pinch of salt. Mix well.
- Add in the plain flour and the baking powder. Mix well. Pour into the lined loaf tin and bake in the oven for 50-60mins or when a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
