My friend Amy the Funeral Director makes this unbelievably delicious lemon-yogurt cake - from scratch. Hers always come out perfectly golden, rich and moist, with this lovely, sweet, but not cloying, dripping glaze, with the perfect amount of lemon. It tastes like homemade lemonade swirled inside of the perfect, buttery pound cake. She let me in on the fact that I too could make this cake. All I would have to do is follow Ina's recipe! Yes, we talk about Ina Garten like we know her. We are on a first name basis. "Ina says use only unsalted butter". "Ina uses EXTRA LARGE eggs! It gives cakes a more luscious creaminess." No, we have never met Ina. We each only even have two of her cookbooks between the two of us, but her recipes are genius. And when you make them, everyone compliments you on them. But even better, when you make them, YOU want to eat the food you make. You aren't tired from all the measuring and cooking. They are surprisingly easy recipes that look as good in "real life" as she makes them look in her fresh hand-picked herb filled East Hampton kitchen.
By the way, my lemon cake was good, but Amy's is better. It must be the lemons from Queens.
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