Cookbook:Lemon Drizzle Cake

Lemon Drizzle Cake
Category	Cake recipes
Servings	16
Time	40 minutes
Difficulty

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Lemon drizzle cake is a simple butter cake flavored with lemon zest and juice, and topped with a lemony icing.

Ingredients

Cake

• 280 g (9.9 oz/2¼ sticks) unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing
• 280 g (9.9 oz/1¼ cups) superfine sugar
• 5 standard eggs
• Zest and juice of 1 lemon
• 300 g (11 oz/2¼ cups) self-raising flour
• 1½ teaspoons baking powder

Icing

• 150 g (5.3 oz/1¼ cups) powdered sugar
• Juice of ½ lemon

Procedure

1. Preheat the oven to 190 °C (374 °F). Grease and line a 20 cm (7.9 in) square cake tin.
2. Beat the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl, until soft and fluffy.
3. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then lemon juice and zest.
4. Fold the flour and baking powder into the mixture.
5. Spoon the mixture into the cake tin.
6. Bake for 25 minutes until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.
7. Transfer the cake to a wire rack and leave it to cool.
8. Mix the icing sugar and lemon juice in a bowl until it is thick enough to coat the back of spoon.
9. Drizzle the icing over the cake.
10. Enjoy!