Today is my brothers 19th birthday and as nobody had thought to buy a cake, I took it upon myself to make one. I decided to make a lemon drizzle cake because who doesn't like lemon drizzle cake?
Ingredients
For the cake:
♡8oz (225g) of softened butter or baking spread (I used stork)
♡8oz (225g) caster sugar
♡4 medium free range eggs
♡8oz (225g) self raising flour
♡The juice and grated zest of 1 lemon
For the icing
♡5-6 tablespoons of lemon juice (about 1 large lemon)
♡200g icing sugar
1) Preheat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4
2) Beat the butter and sugar with an electric whisk or by hand until the mixture is pale and fluffy.
This will take about 5 minutes but this makes the cake fluffy and light.
3) Mix the eggs in one by one until they are fully incorporated.
4) Sift in the flour and mix into the mixture with the lemon zest and juice.
5) Line a loaf tin with grease proof paper and pour the mixture in.
6) Bake for 50 minutes or until the top is golden and when you insert a skewer into the middle of the cake it comes out clean.
7) while the cake is cooling, mix the icing sugar and lemon juice together until the icing is smooth and at your desired consistency.
8) Pour the icing over the warm cake and leave to cool completely.
9) when cooled, remove the cake from the tin and serve.
Hope you enjoyed
Lucy xx
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