Name: Lemon Drizzle Cake
Ingredients: 2 unwaxed lemons ( if you don't have unwaxed give your lemons a good scrub in warm water to remove the wax ); 275 g granulated sugar; 175g butter; 200g Self Raising Flour; 1/2tspn baking powder; 3 eggs; 1 tspn vanilla extract

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a moist light cake with a sweet sugar crunch

Yields1 Serving

2 unwaxed lemons ( if you don't have unwaxed give your lemons a good scrub in warm water to remove the wax )

275 g granulated sugar

175g butter

200g Self Raising Flour

1/2tspn baking powder

3 eggs

1 tspn vanilla extract

Heat oven to 180C

Grease a 2lb loaf tin and line the bottom ( or use a liner )

Zest the lemons finely

Mix 175g of the sugar ,the butter, the flour,baking powder , egg , lemon zest and vanilla extract

When it's combined pour into prepared tin, level the surface

Bake until well risen and it's a pale golden colour . This will take about 35 minutes

Take out of oven and cool in the tin for 5 minutes

Squeeze the lemons so you have about 3 tbspns of juice and mix with the raining 100g of sugar

Set the cake on a wire rack with a plate underneath it

Make about 50 holes in the top of the cake with a skewer ( the deeper the holes the further down the cake your syrup will go )

Gradually spoon half of the syrup over the cake

After about 5 mins spoon over the rest

Serve once the sugar has crystallised

CategoryHome Baking, Puddings / Dessert

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