Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, lemon drizzle cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Lemon Drizzle Cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Lemon Drizzle Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook lemon drizzle cake using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon Drizzle Cake:
- Get Cake
- Prepare 225 grams Caster sugar
- Make ready 225 grams Softened Butter
- Get 2 gratted lemon zest ONLY
- Make ready 4 tbsp milk
- Prepare 2 tsp baking powder
- Get 4 eggs
- Make ready 275 grams Self-Raising Flour
- Take Crunchy topping
- Prepare 2 Lemon juice ONLY
- Take 175 grams caster sugar
Serve with a cup of tea and a scoop of vanilla ice cream. When life give you lemons, make lemon cake! A lemon drizzle cake is more of a concept than an actual recipe. Although there is a time and a place for Madeira-type plain lemon sponge, sometimes just a bit more pizzazz and sugar is required.
Instructions to make Lemon Drizzle Cake:
- Cut a rectangle of non-stick baking parchment to fit the base and sides of a 30 x 23 x 4 cm roasting tin. Grease the tin and line with the paper, pushing it neatly into the corners of the tin. Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4
- Measure all the ingredients for the tray bake into a large bowl and beat well for about 2 minutes, until well blended
- Turn the mixture into the prepared tin, scraping the sides of the bowl with a plastic spatula to remove all of the mixture. Level the top gently with the back of the spatula
- Bake in the middle of the oven for about 35-40 minutes, or until the cake springs back when lightly pressed and is beginning to shrink away from the sides of the tin
- Leave the cake to cool in the tin for a few minutes then lift it out of the tin while still in its lining paper. Carefully remove the paper and put the tray bake onto a wire rack placed over a tray
- To make the crunchy topping, mix the lemon juice and granulated sugar in a small bowl to give a runny consistency. Spoon this mixture evenly over the tray bake whilst it is still just warm. Cut into squares when cold and store in an airtight tin
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. To get the most lemon flavor into your cake, zest the lemon (we like using a Microplane for the finest, fluffiest shreds) directly into the mixer bowl so that every drop of essential oil ends up in the cake and not on your cutting board or counter.
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