Lemon drizzle cake
Lemon drizzle cake

Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, lemon drizzle cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

We absolutely LOVE lemon drizzle cake. It's zesty, vibrant, moist and downright delicious. And this lemon drizzle cake recipe only has six ingredients - super easy!

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook lemon drizzle cake using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Lemon drizzle cake:
  1. Take For the cake:
  2. Take 125 g soft unsalted butter (a bit warmer than room temperature)
  3. Make ready 175 g caster sugar
  4. Take 2 large eggs
  5. Make ready Zest of 1 lemon (or two if you like a sharper taste)
  6. Take 175 g self raising flour
  7. Make ready Pinch salt
  8. Prepare 4 tablespoon whole milk
  9. Make ready For the lemon syrup 🍋
  10. Take Juice of 2 lemons
  11. Get 90 g icing sugar
  12. Get (optional) vanilla and elderflower
  13. Make ready For the glaze
  14. Get Juice of a lemon
  15. Prepare 150 g icing sugar

This light and moist lemon poundcake has a crunchy sugar glaze that crystallizes on top, giving a contrasting texture to the soft crumb underneath. Lemon Drizzle Cake is the most delicious bake ever! A fluffy, moist and buttery sponge soaked with tangy lemon syrup. Easy enough for even novice bakers.

Steps to make Lemon drizzle cake:
  1. Preheat oven to 180 Deg, butter and line the tin with parchment paper
  2. Cream butter and sugar until it almost doubles in size. Add lemon zest and eggs, beat them until they're well mixed
  3. Fold in flour and salt, just enough until the flour combines with the rest. Add milk (not necessarily all 4 spoons) and mix well
  4. Pour batter in tin and put in the oven for 45-50 mins. (Skewer test)
  5. For the syrup, put the lemon juice and icing sugar into a saucepan and heat gently until the sugar has dissolved. Add elderflower/vanilla and lemon zest to taste (more lemon zest/juice if you like a sharper lemon taste)
  6. When the cake is baked, skewer it all over and evenly pour the warm lemon syrup and let it cool for at least an hour
  7. For the glaze, whisk together the icing sugar and lemon juice and pour over the cake

This wonderfully simple lemon drizzle cake recipe is super-quick to prepare and perfect for Meanwhile, stir together the lemon juice and icing sugar. When the cake has cooled a little, poke. Place a chopping board over the cold cake tin and invert it onto the board. A classic afternoon tea lemon drizzle cake that sounds as good as it tastes. If you fancy some enjoyable baking, with a great reward at the end, then this recipe is for you.

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