If life gives you lemons… make lemon drizzle cake. It’s the kind of easy lemon cake recipe that never goes out of style – perfect for tea time, gifting, or sneaking a slice straight from the tin. This homemade lemon drizzle cake proves that sometimes, the classics really do it best.
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Lemon drizzle cake
Ingredients
- 200 grams butter, softened
- 1 cup caster sugar
- 1 tbsp finely grated lemon zest, plus extra to serve
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup self-raising flour, sifted
- ½ cup ground almond flour
- 2 tbsp milk
- Drizzle
- ½ cup caster sugar
- ⅓ cup lemon juice
- Icing
- 1½ cups icing sugar
- 1½ tbsp lemon juice
Instructions
PREHEAT the oven to 160°C. Grease a 12cm x 22cm, 1.5-litre (6-cup) loaf pan; line base and long sides with baking paper.
BEAT butter, sugar and lemon zest with an electric mixer for 8 minutes or until pale and fluffy. Increase speed and beat in eggs, one at a time until combined after each addition. Fold in combined flour and ground almond flour and then the milk, alternately, in two batches.
SPREAD the mixture into a pan and bake the cake for 50 minutes (cover with foil if it starts to overbrown) or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
Drizzle
STIR sugar and lemon juice together in a pot and bring to a simmer over a low heat for 3 minutes or until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat; stand until cooled.
PIERCE the hot cake in a pan all over with a skewer. Pour cooled drizzle over cake and leave in the pan to cool completely.
Icing
WHISK sifted icing sugar and lemon juice together in a bowl until smooth.
TURN cake, top-side up, onto a platter; spoon icing over cake and sprinkle with extra lemon zest.
Notes
This cake delivers a lemony kick in all three recipe components: it has rind in the batter, the cake is drenched with a sharp lemon drizzle, then it’s topped with a zingy lemon icing and extra rind for good measure.
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