Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, lemon drizzle cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Lemon drizzle cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Lemon drizzle cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lemon drizzle cake using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon drizzle cake:
- Prepare For the cake:
- Prepare 125 g soft unsalted butter (a bit warmer than room temperature)
- Make ready 175 g caster sugar
- Take 2 large eggs
- Take Zest of 1 lemon (or two if you like a sharper taste)
- Take 175 g self raising flour
- Prepare Pinch salt
- Prepare 4 tablespoon whole milk
- Prepare For the lemon syrup 🍋
- Prepare Juice of 2 lemons
- Make ready 90 g icing sugar
- Get (optional) vanilla and elderflower
- Make ready For the glaze
- Make ready Juice of a lemon
- Take 150 g icing sugar
Lemon drizzle cake recipe made from scratch with fresh lemons and an easy to follow cake recipe. A lovely citrus cake thats crumbly, moist and perfect for an afternoon tea or as a celebration or birthday cake. Topped with lemon syrup, lemon icing, fresh mint and lemon zest, this really is the best lemon drizzle cake you'll ever make. A lemon drizzle cake is more of a concept than an actual recipe.
Instructions to make Lemon drizzle cake:
- Preheat oven to 180 Deg, butter and line the tin with parchment paper
- Cream butter and sugar until it almost doubles in size. Add lemon zest and eggs, beat them until they're well mixed
- Fold in flour and salt, just enough until the flour combines with the rest. Add milk (not necessarily all 4 spoons) and mix well
- Pour batter in tin and put in the oven for 45-50 mins. (Skewer test)
- 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)
- 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
- For the glaze, whisk together the icing sugar and lemon juice and pour over the cake
Although there is a time and a place for Madeira-type plain lemon sponge, sometimes just a bit more pizzazz and sugar is required. A drizzle cake is just a lemon sponge cake that's soaked while still warm with a glaze made of lemon juice and sugar, which adds a crisp crust as it cools. How to make icing for lemon drizzle cake. Depending on the thickness you want, you can use more or less lemon juice and even add milk to make it thinner. For a thicker icing, use less liquid or add more icing sugar.
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