I love Lemon Drizzle Cake, it’s definitely one of my favourite treats. This recipe is really easy because it’s an all-in-one cake, which means you just put everything in a bowl and mix it up then bake. The drizzle is really simple too and so is the icing, although you may leave this off if you wish.
I would give just one tip though, don’t do as I did an fall asleep while your cake is baking! I didn’t burn it but I would have put a piece of grease proof paper on the top for the last ten minutes to prevent it from browning as much.
Ingredients:
200g soft butter
250g caster sugar
3 eggs
250g self raising flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
finely grated zest of 2 lemons
100ml milk at room temperature.
For the drizzle:
lemon juice from 2 lemons, leaving about 1 tsp for icing
2 tbs golden syrup
For the icing:
1 tsp lemon juice
icing sugar
Method:
pre-heat oven to 180C/gas mark 4
grease and line a 1lb loaf tin or 20cm cake tin
Put all the cake ingredients into a large mixing bowl and mix with an electric food mixer or a wooden spoon until the batter is completely smooth.
Pour batter into cake/loaf tin and bake in middle of the oven for about 40 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. You may wish to cover the cake with greaseproof paper for last 10 minutes.
Just before cake has finished cooking put the lemon juice (reserving a tsp for icing) into a pan with the golden syrup and warm gently.
When you take the cake out of the oven, prick it all over with a skewer then pour over the syrup mixture before taking it out of the tin.
When the cake has cooled remove it from tin and cover it with a drizzle of icing made with the lemon juice and as much icing sugar as it takes to make a runny icing.
Enjoy!
Yum! I love Lemon drizzle cake…
What a great idea about putting grease proof paper on the top for the last 10 minutes. Very clever x
I love lemon drizzle cake, I've never made my own though. This looks fairly easy so think I'll give it a go.
Ooh lemon drizzle is my fave – especially when it's moist, which I can tell yours is! I'm going to try this recipe right after the MADS ??
looks absolutely lovely! Lemon lemon lemon in anything is one of my favourite flavours!
Oh, I'd love a piece (or two) with my coffee right about now!
very moist! And very easy to make too, perfect for Sunday afternoon x
I'm very partial to lemon too 🙂
You're very welcome, I'll swap you for a slice of your Nutella Brownie with Baileys 😉
The paper does stop your cake from getting too brown before it's cooked, it is a great idea.
very easy, put it in a bowl and mix it up, then fall asleep while it bakes…or maybe not 😉
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