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Easy Lemon Drizzle Cake
Easy Lemon Drizzle Cake – from the lovely Mel
Here we have a wonderful Lemon Cake recipe which was supplied 18 months ago by the lovely Mel. It also won a competition with Homepride and was published in Freds 50th Book! A real classic recipe, I make it all the time, do you like Lemon in a Cake?
It’s so moist, so easy and so tasty, it’s a real winner. Who doesn’t love a classic Lemon Drizzle Cake? There are many many recipes for Easy Lemon Drizzle Cakes in books and on the net but I promise you this is amazing!
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Have a go and let me know how you get on with this lovely Easy Lemon Drizzle Cake, please drop us a comment below the blog post, love getting your comments
Thanks Cx
Ingredients
- 6oz soft butter
- 9oz Homepride Self Raising flour
- 3 eggs,
- 9oz caster sugar
- 2-4 tbsp milk
- 3 lemons grated
- 9oz Caster Sugar
- 2 tbsp icing sugar
- This makes a lot of drizzle – you can easily half drizzle mix
- tub mascarpone mixed with icing sugar and lemon juice to taste for a special topping – really delicious but its also wonderful without
Preparation Method
- Line and grease tin, use a 2llb loaf tin, perfect
- Cream butter and sugar till pale and fluffy then add eggs slowly, fold in the flour and slacken with milk
- Add grated lemon rind.
- Pour in tin and bake on 150-170 depending on oven, for 40 mins depending on tin size!! and firm to touch
- Mix the juice of 3 lemons with the caster sugar & icing sugar and heat till warm on stove or microwave!
- When cake comes out of oven prick with skewer and drizzle lemon icing on top – leave till cool.
- Its nice to finish off by beating mascarpone with juice of half remaining lemon and a little more icing sugar.
- Go on have a slice 🙂 Cx
Comments
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Jane McCabe says:
This is such a good recipe - best lemon drizzle cake I've made. Definitely in my repertoire now!Susan says:
never tasted cake this nice , just in heaven??Abigail & George says:
George's absolute fave, and that's saying something because my child LOVES cake!!! XClare x says:
oh i'm pleased my godson loves cake <3 xMel says:
It's still my fave too and great for with a cuppa or a nice afternoon tea. I'd like to say it keeps well but it's never in the tin long enough to test it xHonest Mum says:
Oh wow, yummy xKirsty Hijacked By Twins says:
Yes please! Lemon drizzle is a definite favourite of mine. I cannot resist it! Thank you for sharing with #SimplySeasonal xRosa Ronan says:
I absolutely loved thelemonsqueezycake also fruit and apple loaf thank you