Lemon Drizzle Cake - Desserts Recipe

Lemon Drizzle Cake

🌍 Desserts, United Kingdom Difficulty: ●●●○○

Ingredients

• 175g butter
• 175g sugar
• 3 eggs
• 175g self-raising flour
• 2 lemons (zest + juice). Drizzle: 4 tbsp lemon juice
• 100g superfine sugar

Method

1. Creaming — Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, fold in flour, zest.
2. Pouring — Pour into loaf tin. Bake 180°C (350°F) for 45-50 min.
3. Whiling — While hot, poke all over with skewer.
4. Mixing — Mix lemon juice and sugar (don't dissolve). Pour over warm cake.
5. Leaving — Leave to cool — sugar will crystallize into crunchy topping.

Tags: butter, sugar, eggs, self-raising flour, lemons . drizzle: 4 tbsp lemon juice · Source: Brittani's Almanac