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Lemon drizzle cake
Recipe by:
NAOMI92
This is a lovely traditional lemon drizzle cake which tastes wonderfully tangy-sweet. Perfect for a work morning tea.
Ready in 1 hour 15 minutes
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Ingredients
Serves: 8
- 125g butter or margarine
- 125g caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 185g self raising flour
- a pinch of baking powder
- 1 lemon, rind grated and juiced
- ¼ cup milk, or as needed
- 4 tablespoons icing sugar
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Preparation method
Prep: 25 minutes | Cook: 50 minutes1.
Grease and line 20cm deep cake tin. Preheat oven to 160 degrees C.
2.
Beat together the butter, caster sugar, eggs, self-raising flour, baking powder, the lemon rind and enough milk to make a fairly soft consistency.
3.
Put into tin and bake for about an hour until well risen and springy to touch.
4.
Mix together icing sugar and 3 tablespoons lemon juice in a pan over very low heat.
5.
As soon as cake comes out of oven prick top of cake with fine skewer and pour the icing/syrup over it. Leave to cool in tin for 10 minutes then transfer to rack to finish cooling.
Lemon rind tip
I take the rind off the lemon with a potato peeler - it's much easier than grating. Then, using a food processor or blender, blend the rind with the sugar. The lemon oil goes into the sugar and makes the finished cake yellow and taste much more lemony.
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Last updated:
03 Dec 2012
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I made this cake and I liked it. I found it a bit dry, when making this I would make more of the lemon syrup and I would make sure a lot of it went into the actual cake.
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03 Dec 2012
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I loved that you didn't have to cream butter and sugar and muck around - just put it all in a bowl The syrup makes it delicious!
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31 Aug 2012
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we just finished making the cake and it is almost gone - we substituted some of the milk with yoghurt... delicious
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18 Aug 2012
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loved this cake, so moist and lemony. used a 20cm wide cake tin not deep.
also did the tip with the lemon rind and sugar.
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27 Feb 2011
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Delicious! I also followed the tip on processing the lemon rind with the sugar...good idea! A tangy, light and fluffy cake - to be made again.
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02 Oct 2009
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this is a really great recipe, tasty and easy to make. thanks! yummo!
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15 Jun 2009
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