Lemon Drizzle Cake

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This cake is tangy and splendidly moist, it will get better with age and after about per week it is at its simplest. They execute mountainous gifts for folk and company can never resist the lemony charms of the drizzle cake.

Ingredients

• 100g unsalted butter
• 250g caster sugar
• 3 tidy eggs
• 100ml milk
• 250g self-raising flour
• pinch of salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• zest of 3 lemons
• For the drizzle:
• Juice of 3 lemons
• 100ml water
• 170g caster sugar

Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Cooking Time: 50 minutes

Serves: 10 – 15

System

1. Heat oven to 180°c.
2. Establish the eggs, milk and sugar correct into a tidy mixing bowl.
   
   
   
3. Thoroughly plug them collectively till the mix becomes successfully blended and foamy.
   
   
   
4. Sift within the flour, salt and baking powder after which streak it into the liquid combination till there are no lumps left.
   
   
   
5. Sprint within the lemon zest. Then heat the butter (either on the hob or within the microwave) till it has fully melted, then pour it in to the batter and streak till it is fully incorporated.
   
   
   
6. Pour the mix correct into a greased loaf tin, lined with greaseproof paper.
   
   
   
7. Establish the tin into the oven and bake it for 50 minutes.
8. To ascertain if the cake is completed, insert a skewer into the center and if it comes out handsome the cake is exciting. When it is cooked, have interaction it from the oven and recede it in its tin.
9. To execute the drizzle, squeeze the lemon juice via a sieve correct into a heat-proof pouring jug.
10. Establish the water and sugar correct into a pan over a medium heat. Bring the mix as much as the boil and boil it for 4 minutes.
    
    
    
11. Pour the sugar combination into the jug with the lemon juice and mix them collectively.
    
    
    
12. Pour as noteworthy of the lemon drizzle combination onto the cake as you presumably can and recede the cake to rob up for 20 minutes. If the cake becomes reluctant to rob up any extra liquid, cease pouring.
    
    
    
13. Fastidiously have interaction the cake from the tin (there is actually a pair of of the drizzle left, unabsorbed within the underside of the tin), switch it to a wire rack and enable it to totally cool to room temperature
14. When the cake is wintry, prick it and support.
    
    
    

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Worthwhile Files

Can it is frozen? Yes.

Can it is exciting upfront? Yes, it will also furthermore be completed as much as 1 week upfront.

Will leftovers be nice? Yes, for as much as 1 week (support it in an airtight container).

Notes

– That you just would be in a position to are attempting this cake with orange or lime! Advise 2 tidy oranges or 5 limes.

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