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Lemon Cake

Posted By Stevens

14
Jul

INGREDIENTS:

  • 120g Butter, softened
  • 1 ½ cup Plain Flour
  • 3 tsp Baking Powder
  • ¾ cup White Sugar
  • 2 large Eggs
  • ¼ cup Milk
  • 1 tsp Vanilla Essence
  • 2 Lemons (depending on the size of your lemons, and the baker’s preference for strength of lemon flavour, you may need more or less lemons)


METHOD:

  1. Preheat oven to 180ËšC. Grease a 21cm square cake tin.
  2. Grate the rind of the lemons until you have as much zest as you can. Then juice them. This should yield around ½ cup of juice.
  3. In a large mixing bowl, beat together the lemon zest and juice with all the other ingredients, until just combined.
  4. Pour the mixture into your cake tin. Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean.
  5. Let the cake stand for 5-10 minutes before removing from the pan and letting cool on a rack.

You can top this cake with syrup or icing – or both if you’re feeling decadent!

For the syrup, dissolve ½ cup of white sugar in boiling water, combine with the zest and juice of 1 lemon, and heat until it reduces.

For the icing, follow our Buttercream Icing recipe, adding 1 ½ Tbsp of lemon juice and the zest of ½ a lemon instead of food colouring.

Top with extra lemon zest for an added zing!

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