How to Make a Lemon Icing Glaze

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Lemon Icing Glaze is very easy to make and consists of four simple ingredients. Read on to find out how to make this great, simple lemon glaze that will be amazing on your cakes, cupcakes and more! 

Lemon Glaze Recipe

In order to make my Lemon Blueberry Bundt all it could be and more, it needed an amazing lemon icing. To achieve this, one needs to mix icing sugar with lemon juice as the base. I decided to add in a ton of lemon zest and a teensy, weensy bit of butter to try and give it a good slick, crackly crust. This was loaded with lemon flavor, no taming the taste buds here! My lemon dishes have to scream lemon, then slap you in the face with flavor, and this is exactly what this glaze did.

What do you need to make lemon glaze?

• 1 ¾ cups of confectioners sugar
• ¼ cup of lemon juice
• the zest of one lemon (or more!)
• 1 tsp of salted butter

In a large Pyrex measuring cup, the 4 cup capacity ones are the best, combine the sugar, lemon juice and lemon zest.

Tips and Tricks for the Perfect Lemon Glaze:

• Now, again, I use salted butter. If you want to add another layer to the lemon flavor, feel free to toss just a pinch of salt into the mix now. We all know how I feel about salt in icings, such as my Buttercream Icing / Frosting Recipe. The salt is a necessity to cut the sugar taste and add some complexity past that overwhelming sweet rush. Just the tiniest pinch, depending on how salty your butter is.
• Add in the butter then microwave on high for 45 seconds.
• Take out the measuring cup and whisk until smooth, making sure there are no lumps.
• Let it sit for a few minutes then pour it over your creation. This would be beyond amazing on scones, cakes, bundts of course, anything that you can think of that needs a lemon glaze works.

Troubleshooting this Lemon Glaze

1. If you have a watery glaze, you have too little icing/powdered/confectioners sugar. It can get really packed together in the bags that it comes in, so someone that uses 2 cups of packed icing sugar is going to have a very different result from the person that uses 2 cups of loosely packed or sifted confectioners sugar.
2. Don't use lemon juice to make the flavour more prominent, use lemon zest and make it as small as you can. It works wonderfully to add that lemon flavour!

What can you use this lemon glaze on?

You can use this lemon glaze on:

1. Lemon Strawberry Bundt Cake
2. Lighter Lemon Blackberry Muffins
3. Glazed Meyer Lemon Scones
4. If you want to try another amazing icing glaze, try my Cherry Icing Glaze!

Happy Baking!

Karlynn

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How to Make a Lemon Glaze

Perfect lemon icing glaze, with salted butter giving it an amazing taste.

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Prep Time

3 minutes

Total Time

3 minutes

Course

Dessert

Cuisine

American

Servings

1 batch

Calories

868

Author

Karlynn Johnston

Ingredients

 

• ▢ 1 3/4 cups confectioners' sugar
• ▢ 1/4 cup lemon juice
• ▢ 1 zest of one lemon
• ▢ 1 teaspoon salted butter

Instructions

 

• In a large Pyrex measuring cup, the 4 cup capacity ones are the best, combine the sugar, lemon juice and lemon zest.
• Now, again, I use salted butter. If you want to add another layer of taste, feel free to toss just a pinch of salt into the mix now. We all know how I feel about salt in icings, such as my buttercream icing recipe. The salt is a necessity to cut the sugar taste and add some complexity past that overwhelming sweet rush. Just the tiniest pinch, depending on how salty your butter is.
• Add in the butter then microwave on high for 45 seconds.
• Take out the measuring cup and whisk until smooth, making sure there are no lumps.
• Let it sit for a few minutes then pour it over your creation.

Recipe Notes

Tips and Tricks

• Now, again, I use salted butter. If you want to add another layer to the lemon flavor, feel free to toss just a pinch of salt into the mix now. We all know how I feel about salt in icings, such as my Buttercream Icing / Frosting Recipe. The salt is a necessity to cut the sugar taste and add some complexity past that overwhelming sweet rush. Just the tiniest pinch, depending on how salty your butter is.
• Add in the butter then microwave on high for 45 seconds.
• Take out the measuring cup and whisk until smooth, making sure there are no lumps.
• Let it sit for a few minutes then pour it over your creation. This would be beyond amazing on scones, cakes, bundts of course, anything that you can think of that needs a lemon glaze works.

Nutrition Information

Calories: 868kcal, Carbohydrates: 214g, Fat: 4g, Saturated Fat: 2g, Cholesterol: 10mg, Sodium: 40mg, Potassium: 62mg, Sugar: 207g, Vitamin A: 125IU, Vitamin C: 31.4mg

All calories and info are based on a third party calculator and are only an estimate. Actual nutritional info will vary with brands used, your measuring methods, portion sizes and more.

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