Lemon Drizzle Cake
Camilla's recipe for delicious lemon drizzle cake...Very moist and sweet.
INGREDIENTS
2 eggs
4 tablespoons milk
175g self raising flour
grated zest of one unwaxed lemon
juice of lemon
1 tablespoon icing sugar
175g butter(softened)
175g caster sugar
1. Cream butter and sugar. Gradually beat in eggs and milk.
2. Fold in flour with lemon zest.
3. Spoon mixture into greased 2 lb loaf tin.
4. Bake gas mark 4/ electric 180c/ fan 160c for 55-65 mins until golden brown.
5. Mix lemon juice and icing sugar (you may need extra sugar) to make a thin paste. Pour over cake as soon as removed from oven. Allow glaze to set before removing from tin. Set on wire rack to cool completely.
September 2, 2003 in Puds | Permalink
Comments
Lovely cake. I think I rushed mixing the bits together and ended up throwing the mix in the blender for a few minutes, which sorted it out nicely. The only other thing I found was that it takes a lot of sugar to make paste out of a whole lemon and I still had a watery but sweet consistency after adding a few tablespoons but I poured it anyway on the top and it soaked through and made the cake very moist and tasty, so I might well do that in future again.
Posted by: Damian Rafferty | 2 Nov 2003 23:33:15
I've tried this at Damian's and it's lovely!
Posted by: Paolo | 3 Nov 2003 10:18:59
The cake tasty delicious good recipe, thanks =D.
Posted by: Sarah B | 6 Jul 2005 11:48:06
baked this the other day - just lovely:)
Posted by: slh | 16 Sep 2005 20:55:15
this cake is lovely i use the zest and juice of a lemon and a lime I make it on all special occasions
Posted by: gerard | 11 Mar 2006 12:36:21
We had a ball making this deilcious thursday afternoon cake. A real tounge-tantalising treat. I'm making another for our party tomorrow night. May include the lime as suggested by slh. May we also recommend fun Easter decorations for this festive season. x
Posted by: Dan & JP | 13 Apr 2006 15:47:42
yum...
Posted by: eat me | 4 May 2006 20:14:41
it makes a AMAZING cake which dissapeared into my familes stomach in minutes! people seemed shock at what me a 15 year old girl could achieve!
Posted by: Natalie | 27 May 2006 10:01:16
Been 3 hours looking for this recipe for my daughter - then put all recipe books away came to computer and hey presto. Lemon Drizzle Cake will be made by us this week. Thanks.
p.s. Hope I haven't spelt anything incorrectly!!
Posted by: Chrissie | 27 Jun 2006 16:27:45
great recips regards a chef
Posted by: malcolm | 3 Jul 2006 18:52:47
aah ma god y r their soo meny complants abaout spelings? its a recipy sitte not a effing dictinary!!! god if d cak tasts nise y de hel dos it mater if fings rnt spelt rite... peeple spnd mre tme on ta cke nt tha bloddy splling n ya mite gt sumwere !!!! tha caks yuum
Posted by: sss | 13 Jul 2006 16:59:59
This cake is really lovely, I agree about the syrup but I did the same poured it over the top and everyone here loves it. Feel sorry for the person who complained about the spellig how sad can you be?
Posted by: Josie | 19 Aug 2006 20:18:21
omg i cant believe it! omg omg omg! its lyk soo totally yummy scrumpcious!! X lv ya
Posted by: norman | 25 Aug 2006 15:08:13
hi i am norman mcdidly.....yes its me darlin! this cake is pip pip cheerio yummy!!! u r one sexy website!! lv norman & nigel.
p.s we have a cake competition held on the 30th of augst at pond spa field. at 12pm-4pm
Posted by: norman | 25 Aug 2006 15:11:28
great recipe many thanks! ;-)
Posted by: Greatful | 11 Sep 2006 13:40:02
It is a lovely cake, very yummy.
Posted by: Isabel | 8 Oct 2006 18:08:03
This recipe has made my 77 year old mother in law a happy happy woman - it's absolutely amazingly delicious! It's become a permanent fixture at any family gathering - and sometimes...just 'cause :).
Posted by: taliese | 15 Oct 2006 18:37:45
I made that cake and i thought it tasted lovely i used alot of sugar in the paste because it stayed runny for a while ,but as i am 11 years old i believe that the instructions were very easy to follow
by hannah
Posted by: hannah | 3 Nov 2006 09:50:23
What a wonderfull recipe, best lemon drizzle I have ever tasted. Thank you.
Posted by: Shelley | 12 Nov 2006 14:32:04
Looks delicious! I'm looking for an orange drizzle cake recipe. Has anyone made this with an orange instead? ...any advice?
Posted by: Katherine | 1 Dec 2006 12:37:44
Going to give it a go as soon as I get the lemons,maybe oranges as well.Joyce
Posted by: joyce lydia thrower | 12 Dec 2006 17:41:16
Lovely recipe, no obvious coherency issues. Thank you for sharing it with us!
I, too, discovered it went a bit lumpy, but straightened out fine in the oven. If this is often the case, perhaps a "Don't panic" note should be added?
Posted by: Anastasia | 21 Dec 2006 22:47:02
Love the recipe - Lemon Drizzle is about my favourite cake ever - my main problem with this recipe is the will-power I will now require not to make (and eat!) the cake too often!
Mine was also lumpy to start with but fine in the end - but I find this to be true of lots of recipes where you add all the liquid at once rather than alternating eggs/flour etc
Oh, and I agree with Anastasia's thing about drawing a line under BOTH sides of the whole Grammar gripe...in fact, here it is____________
Posted by: Eves | 2 Feb 2007 19:00:55
the recipe sounds gorgues but i would like to know(as i haven't made it yet)how long does this recipe actually take?
Thanks alot.
Posted by: rosemary | 12 Feb 2007 11:12:28
Loved the cake - have made it twice in the last week because everyone keeps eating it!
Rosemary I think it takes about an hour and twenty minutes in all (including time in oven).
Posted by: Caroline | 13 Feb 2007 17:08:17
