Recipe: Appealing Lemon drizzle cake

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Lemon drizzle cake. 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!

Lemon drizzle cake 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. You can have Lemon drizzle cake using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Lemon drizzle cake

  1. It's of eggs.
  2. You need of self-raising flour.
  3. Prepare of caster sugar.
  4. You need of softened butter.
  5. It's of baking powder.
  6. It's of Juice of 1 lemon.
  7. You need of Finely grated zest of ½ lemon.
  8. It's of tin, greased and lined.
  9. Prepare of Lemon drizzle topping.
  10. Prepare of Brown sugar.
  11. Prepare of lemon juice and zest.

Easy enough for even novice bakers. Felicity Cloake: Is this citrus sponge a big wet sticky kiss of a teatime treat, or a damp squib? 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.

Lemon drizzle cake detailed

  1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC, gas 4..
  2. In a mixing bowl, beat up eggs, flour, caster sugar, butter, baking powder, lemon juice and lemon zest together until smooth in a large mixing bowl and turn into the prepared tin..
  3. Bake in the pre-heated oven for about 25-35 mins, or until golden brown, shrinking away from the sides of the tin and springy to the touch..
  4. While the cake is still warm, make the lemon drizzle topping. Mix together the sugar and lemon juice, pour over on warm cake..
  5. Leave it to cool down a little and loosen the sides of the cake, then lift the cake out of the tin..

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. A lemon drizzle cake is more of a concept than an actual recipe. Although there is a time and a place for Madeira-type plain lemon sponge, sometimes just a bit more pizzazz and sugar is required. Everyone loves a lemon drizzle cake!