This Instant Pot Lemon Cake is a fluffy cake with a fresh aroma, perfect for picnics or spring parties! Baking with your pressure cooker is easy and fast and you can prepare wonderful cakes in just a few minutes, thanks to steam which will speed up the process.
Before serving, top your cake with powdered sugar. If you have guests and you are looking for something fancy, make this Instant Pot lemon curd and combine together.
Serve this Instant Pot lemon cake together with a scoop of ice cream.
How to make Lemon Cake
Gather your ingredients:
Spray a 6-cup Bundt pan with nonstick cooking spray.
In a bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
In a large bowl, beat together the granulated sugar, yogurt, butter, egg, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, and lemon zest with a hand mixer until smooth.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix with the hand mixer until well combined.
Pour the batter into the prepared Bundt pan. Lay a paper towel over the top of the pan (this will help catch excess moisture from the steam inside the pot), then cover the paper towel and pan loosely with aluminum foil.
Pour water into your Instant Pot and correctly place the trivet. Put your pan onto the trivet and cook at high pressure for 40 minutes.
Let the steam release naturally, then wait for the cake to be completely cool before removing it from the pan.
Whisk together the powdered sugar and the remaining 1 tablespoon of lemon juice to make the lemon glaze.
Drizzle the cake with the lemon glaze and decorate with lemon slices.
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup plain Greek yogurt
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 stick unsalted butter room temperature
- 3 tbsp fresh lemon juice devided
- 1 tbsp lemon zest grated
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 lemon for decoration
- 1 cup water for the Instant Pot
- Spray a 6-cup Bundt pan with nonstick cooking spray
- In a bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- In another bowl, beat together granulated sugar, yogurt, butter, egg, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, and lemon zest with a hand mixer until smooth.
- Add the dry ingredients (first bowl) to the wet ingredients (second bowl) and mix with the hand mixer until well combined.
- Pour the batter into the prepared Bundt pan. Lay a paper towel over the top of the pan, then cover the paper towel and pan loosely with aluminum foil.
- Pour water into your Instant Pot and place the trivet.
- Put your pan onto the trivet and cook at high pressure for 40 minutes.
- When cooking time ends, wait for a natural pressure release.
- Open the lid and wait for the cake to be completely cool before removing it from the pan.
- Whisk together the powdered sugar and the remaining 1 tablespoon of lemon juice to make the lemon glaze.
- Drizzle the cake with the lemon glaze and decorate with lemon slices.
- Serve and enjoy 🙂
I didn’t think about making a cake using the Instant Pot but this cake turns out great thanks you.
Glad you like it ^_^
Awesome recipe. Better than the chocolate cake in my opinion.
Thanks Chloe 🙂
My bundt pan to big, just realized, can I cook in the oven?
Oh no! Yes, you can cook it in the oven at 350 degrees until a toothpick comes out clean.
Do I have to use a bundt pan?
No, you can also use a loaf pan or a cake pan for this recipe. It may cook slightly faster.
I don’t have a Bundt pan, can I cook this in a ‘regular’ cake pan in the instant pot ?
Yes, you can! Ideally one with about 6 cup volume, same as the bundt pan.
Can I use almond flour instead of all purpose flour and use Alluose instead of sugar
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I haven’t tried it so I can’t be sure. A gluten free all-purpose blend would be a better replacement. You might want to try adding 1 egg if you use almond flour since it requires more binding agents.
I believe butter comes in sticks of 4 Tbsp or 8 Tbsp. Can you confirm the volume of softened butter in this recipe? Thanks!
Of course! 1 standard size stick, 8 tbsp.
A cup of water is listed as the first ingredient, but there’s no mention of it in the instructions.
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In step 6, you pour the water into the Instant Pot before placing the trivet and then the cake pan on top.