Simple Way to Make Homemade Lemon drizzle cake

Lemon drizzle cake
Lemon drizzle cake

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, lemon drizzle cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Lemon drizzle cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Lemon drizzle cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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

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

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