Lemon Drizzle cake
by flourbandit This cake is a treat, it turns out moist and almost never fails. Put everything in a bowl, and ready set, go.
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Ingredients
- 225 g Margarine/Baking spread straight from the fridge
- 275 g Self-raising flour
- 4 lg free-range eggs
- 4 tbsp milk
- 2 md unwaxed lemons
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 225 g Caster Sugar
- 100 g Granulated sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 160 °C degrees and line your baking tray with grease paper.
- Add the caster sugar to a bowl. Add the zest of two lemons to the sugar and rub together to intensify the lemon flavour.
- To the sugar mixture add the eggs, margarine. flour, milk and the baking powder. Combine everything together with an electric mixer for about one minute.
- Transfer the batter to the baking tray and into the oven for 30minutes. This may need more time if using a deeper baking sheet (35-45mins).
- While the cake is baking, work on the drizzle. Whisk together the juice of two lemons and 100g of granulated sugar.
- Once out of the oven and cooked through at the centre, let it cool on a wire wrack for 10minutes. Spoon the lemon-drizzle on the cake to cover the whole surface. Once cake is completely cooled, cut to 12 pieces.
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