Recipe and source notes

Lemon Drizzle Cake

8 servings Source yield

Ingredients

  • 175 grams Butter
  • 175 grams Golden caster sugar
  • 3 Eggs - size 3
  • 3 tablespoons Icing sugar
  • 175 grams Self-raising flour
  • Grated rind and juice of two lemons

Make it step by step

  1. Preheat oven to 180c/350f/Gas 4.
  2. 1 Grease and base line a 1lb loaf tin. Cream the butter and sugar, gradually add the beaten eggs and fold in the flour and then the lemon rind. Bake in the oven centre for 40 minutes or until risen and firm.
  3. 2 Mix the icing sugar and lemon juice. When the cake is cooked, pierce the top several times with a skewer and pour over the lemon mixture. Leave to cool.

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Adapted from Foodista by Anonymous, under CC BY 3.0. Formatting adapted; listed quantities and instructions are retained from the source.

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