When life gives you lemons... make lemon drizzle cake. I've needed a bit of comfort cake this week and was craving the fresh zesty summery-ness of lemons, so I whipped up this little treat and embraced the cliched but applicable old lemon adage! There's nothing in life that a little cake and kindness won't make better.
I don't know about you but I've followed recipes before for lemon drizzle cake and I'm always a bit shocked at how much you're meant to drizzle over the cake and have more often than not ended up with a soggy middle! Perhaps I've been doing it wrong and taking a bit too much of an ad-hoc approach, but for this cake I decided to skip the traditional drizzle that seeps into the cake and go for a lemony icing sugar drizzle over the top of a lemony sponge. It didn't disappoint!
Ingredients
For the cake:
3 large eggs - weighed in their shells to give you weight Xg
Xg unsalted butter
Xg white caster sugar
Xg self-raising flour
2 tsp baking powder
2 lemons, zest of both and juice of one
For the icing drizzle:
juice of 1/2 lemon
100g icing sugar
Method
1. Pre-heat the oven to 180C. Line one large loaf tin with baking paper.
2. Weigh your eggs in their shells and note this weight - now weigh out the same amount of butter, sugar and flour. So if your eggs weigh 200g, use 200g each of butter, sugar and flour.
2. Beat the butter until soft, then add the sugar and beat until fluffy and creamy.
3. Slowly add the eggs one at a time, mixing until incorporated before adding the next. Mix in the zest of two lemons and the juice of one lemon.
4. Sieve in the flour and baking powder and fold to combine.
5. Pour evenly into the tin and bake for 35-40 minutes. It should be golden brown, springy to touch and a knife inserted should come out clean. If it's not baked through, put back in for another 2-5 minutes before checking again. Once baked, turn onto a wire rack to cool.
6. While the cake is baking, make the icing drizzle by combining the lemon juice and icing sugar in a bowl. Mix until combined and a lovely pourable, but not too runny consistency. Once the cake has cooled completely drizzle over the icing and enjoy!
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