Lemon Cake

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 180˚C. 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!