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Lemon Drizzle Cake
Lemon drizzle cake is a simple butter cake flavored with lemon zest and juice, and topped with a lemony icing.
Ingredients
- unsalted butter, 9.9 oz; 2¼ sticks; plus extra for greasing280 g
- caster sugar, superfine; 9.9 oz; 1¼ cups280 g
- egg, standard5
- lemon, zest and juice1
- self-raising flour, 11 oz; 2¼ cups300 g
- baking powder1 1/2 tsp
- powdered sugar, 5.3 oz; 1¼ cups150 g
- lemon juice1/2 lemon
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Method 10 steps
Preheat the oven to . Grease and line a square cake tin.
Beat the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl, until soft and fluffy.
Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then lemon juice and zest.
Fold the flour and baking powder into the mixture.
Spoon the mixture into the cake tin.
Bake for 25 minutes until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.
Transfer the cake to a wire rack and leave it to cool.
Mix the icing sugar and lemon juice in a bowl until it is thick enough to coat the back of spoon.
Drizzle the icing over the cake.
Enjoy!
Region evidence: no stated origin (basic dish)
