2010 Cooking Club Week 41: Simple Lemon Drizzle Cake

Seen as there are so few sweet/dessert/cake recipies I decied to post this one:

It's really simple and cheap to make and tastes delicious!

Lemon Drizzle Cake

Ingridents:
125g butter or margarine
175g caster sugar
175 Self raising flour (sieved)*
2 Large eggs (beaten)
2 lemons
50G granulated sugar

*If you use plain Flour, use a tsp of baking powder.


Preheat oven to 180'C


line a 7x7 cake tin with parchment paper


cream the butter/marg and caster sugar until light and fluffy, may take a while by hand, but this is a very important part.


Add 1 TBSP of egg at a time to the creamed mixture, adding 1 TBSP of flour after each addition until used up.


grate the rind of 1 lemon and add to the mixture, also add the juice of the lemon to the mixture until combined




spoon into a prepared tin and bake in a pre-heated oven for 25-30 mins, or until a knife/toothpick comes out clean


grate the rind of the second lemon and mix with 25G of the granulated sugar and reserve,



squeeze the juice of the second lemon into a pot with the remaining 25G of the granulated sugar, and heat gently until sugar is dissolved and syrupy. 3-4 mins



with a cocktail stick/skewer prick the warm cake all over and sprinkle the lemon zest/sugar mixture over the cake then drizzle over the syrup and leave to cool in the tin.



Cut into squares and NYOM!

Any questions let me know.

CC