Recipe

Lemon Drizzle Cake

For the cake:
125g unsalted butter
175g castor sugar
2 large eggs
Zest of 1 lemon
175g self-raising flour
Pinch of salt
4 tablespoons milk

For the syrup:
Juice of 1.5 lemons (about 4 tablespoons)
100g icing sugar
Cake:
Preheat oven to 180°C . Butter and line a 23x13x7cm loaf tin.
Cream butter and sugar, then beat in eggs and lemon zest.
Fold in flour and salt, add milk.
Bake 45 minutes or until cooked.
Syrup:
Heat together lemon juice and sugar.
When cake is ready and still hot, puncture top and pour over the syrup.
Leave to cool before removing from the tin.

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