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May 05, 2025
Fennel is a highly aromatic and flavorful herb with culinary and medicinal uses and, along with the similar-tasting anise, is one of the primary ingredients of absinthe. One of our favorite ways to enjoy fennel is in an Italian style sausage – a delicious addition to a pasta sauce or in a lasagna.
This cake is a perfect light dessert for a spring dinner on the deck.
- 1 cup butter
- 5 eggs
- 4 teaspoons fennel seeds (available in store at Well Seasoned)
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla (available in store at Well Seasoned)
- 2/3 cup buttermilk
- 2 tbsp. shredded lemon peel
- ½ cup lemon juice
- 1 cup flaked coconut (available in store at Well Seasoned)
- ¼ cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
1.) Let butter and eggs stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Grease and flour a 10-inch fluted tube pan; set pan aside. In a small skillet or saucepan, heat and stir fennel seeds over medium heat about 2 minutes or until fragrant; cool. Crush slightly with a mortar and pestle. Set fennel aside. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt; set aside.
2.) In a very large mixing bowl, beat butter with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Gradually add the 2 cups sugar, beating about 4 minutes or until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, beating for 20 to 30 seconds after each addition.
Alternately add flour mixture and buttermilk, beating on low to medium speed after each addition just until combined. Using a wooden spoon, stir in fennel seeds, lemon peel, the ½ cup lemon juice and the coconut.
3.) Spread batter evenly into the prepared pan. Bake in a 350 degrees F oven 55 to 60 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted near the center of cake comes out clean and the top springs back when lightly touched. Cool cake in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
4.) Meanwhile, in a small saucepan heat and stir the ¼ cup sugar and the 2 tablespoons lemon juice over medium heat until sugar is dissolved.
5.) Invert cake onto wire rack set over a shallow baking pan; remove pan. Poke holes with a wooden toothpick or skewer into top of cake. Spoon glaze over cake. Cool thoroughly and serve.