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Ingredients
- 6 tablespoons butter
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup ricotta cheese
- 3 eggs, seperated
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 grated lemon, rind of
- 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- confectioners' sugar, for dusting
Method
- Grease a 9 inch round cake or springform pan. Line the bottom with waxed paper. Grease paper. Dust with flour. Set aside. Preheat oven t 350°F.
- Cream butter and sugar together until smooth. Beat in ricotta.
- Beat in egg yolks, one at a time. Add 2 tablespoons of flour and lemon rind and juice. Sift baking powder into remaining flour and beat into the batter until just blended.
- Beat the egg whites until they form stiff peaks. fold them carefully into the batter.
- transfer the mixture to prepared pan. Bake for 45 minutes, or until tester inserted in center, comed out clean. let cake cool an pan 10 minutes,turn out onto a rack to cool. Dust the cake generously with confectioners sugar before serving.
