How to make a Lemon Drizzle Cake?
If you like lemony things…you will absolutely adore this cake, it is so juicy and yummy! By far one of my favorite cake recipes…
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Ingredients:
- 2 eggs
- 175 g caster sugar (6 oz)
- 150 g soft margarine (5 1/2 oz)
- Finely grated rind of one large lemon
- 175 g self raising flour (6 oz)
- 125 ml milk (4 fl oz)
- Baking cake tin (18 cm square) or a cake mould (the one that looks like a giant doughnut)
For the syrup, you will need:
- 140 g icing sugar (5 oz)
- 50 ml fresh lemon juice (2 fl oz)
- Icing sugar for dusting
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Get cooking:
Baking the cake
1 - Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees and grease your cake tin with soft margarine and dust with flour to prevent sticking. You can alternatively line with non-stick baking parchment.
2 - Soften the margarine in the microwave for just a few seconds so that it is really soft. Put the eggs, caster sugar and margarine in a mixing bowl and beat with a hand whisk until soft and fluffy.
3 - Stir in the lemon rind. Slowly and very carefully, fold in the flour lightly and evenly with a spoon. Make sure the mixture is smooth.
4 - Mix in the milk and stir into the mixture gradually until it is smooth and even.
5 - Spoon the mixture into the greased tin and make sure it is leveled and even.
6 - Bake into the pre-heated oven for 45 minutes or until it is golden and firm to the touch. Take the tin out of the oven and stand it on a wire cooling rack. Do not remove the cake from the tin at this stage.
Making the Syrup & finishing the cake
1 - Place the icing sugar in a small saucepan and very slowly and gradually add the lemon juice while stirring vigorously until the mixture is smooth and there are no sugar lumps in it. Pre-heat gently while sirring until it is warm. do NOT let it boil!
2 - prick the cake all over with a skewer (or a fork) and with a spoon drizzle the syrup all over the cake evenly and untill it is totally absorbed.
3 - Leave the cake in the tin to cool completely before you turn it over and drizzle with icing sugar. You can slice it and place in a tight fitting container to serve as lemon drizzle slices.
Et Voila!!!
Super duper Yummy lemon drizzle cake!
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