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Lemon Drizzle Cake

Lemon drizzle cake is a simple butter cake flavored with lemon zest and juice, and topped with a lemony icing.

Source and licence

"Lemon Drizzle Cake" from the Wikibooks Cookbook (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Lemon_Drizzle_Cake, revision 4517059), by its contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Lemon_Drizzle_Cake&action=history), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to . Grease and line a square cake tin.
  2. Beat the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl, until soft and fluffy.
  3. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then lemon juice and zest.
  4. Fold the flour and baking powder into the mixture.
  5. Spoon the mixture into the cake tin.
  6. Bake for 25 minutes until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.
  7. Transfer the cake to a wire rack and leave it to cool.
  8. Mix the icing sugar and lemon juice in a bowl until it is thick enough to coat the back of spoon.
  9. Drizzle the icing over the cake.
  10. Enjoy!