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!
This light and moist lemon poundcake has a crunchy sugar glaze that crystallizes on top, giving a contrasting texture to the soft crumb underneath.
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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
- It's of eggs.
- You need of self-raising flour.
- Prepare of caster sugar.
- You need of softened butter.
- It's of baking powder.
- It's of Juice of 1 lemon.
- You need of Finely grated zest of ½ lemon.
- It's of tin, greased and lined.
- Prepare of Lemon drizzle topping.
- Prepare of Brown sugar.
- Prepare of lemon juice and zest.
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Lemon drizzle cake detailed
- Preheat the oven to 180ºC, gas 4..
- 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..
- 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..
- While the cake is still warm, make the lemon drizzle topping. Mix together the sugar and lemon juice, pour over on warm cake..
- Leave it to cool down a little and loosen the sides of the cake, then lift the cake out of the tin..
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