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Lemon Drizzle Cake

September 8, 2019 by Judith Hanneman

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Lemon drizzle cake is intensely lemony. It’s one of Britain’s most popular cakes.

For lemon lovers! This lemon drizzle cake is easy to make/

Lemon Drizzle Cake: A Food Of My People

Lately I’ve been hearing my ancestral voices.  Britain and my relatives have been on my mind for a while so I guess that’s the reason. I really wanted to be there in late August for my youngest nephew’s 40th birthday (I still can’t believe it), but it just didn’t work out.

Naturally, lots of foods I grew up with were constantly in my head too. Since I love the taste of lemon to excess, the first entry just had to be lemon drizzle cake. I joked around with people I gave some to by saying it was a “food of my people.” The joke is that no one actually considers Britons as “ethnic” in any way, but I guess we are to some degree. Anyway, the joke fit and the cake is scrummy!!!

For lemon lovers! This lemon drizzle cake is easy to make/

Weigh Weigh Weigh

That bears repeating; loudly–WEIGH INGREDIENTS.

Before I started weighing ingredients when I baked, I didn’t get consistent results. The major reason is flour. A “cup” of flour can vary wildly by how it’s measured. Unless a recipe is specific and tells you to “lightly spoon into the cup,” it’s sort of up to you. If you dip-and-sweep, that weighs a heck of a lot more than lightly-spooned flour. This produces very inconsistent results.

However when you weigh your ingredients, 8 ounces of flour is always 8 ounces of flour so you get the same results every time. Another added benefit is that weighing is much less labor intensive; it goes very quickly. And there’s less cleanup too.

So do yourself (and your baking) a big favor and buy a digital kitchen scale, Many are under $10 and once you start weighing and seeing the results, you’ll wonder why you didn’t do it sooner.

For lemon lovers! This lemon drizzle cake is easy to make/

A Nice Extra Touch

If you grow lemon verbena or lemon balm, add a tablespoon to the cake batter. That idea is not mine; it comes from Britain’s goddess of baking Mary Berry.

The added herb also adds a small pop of color to the cake and will make it even more lemony.

The Recipe

 

For lemon lovers! This lemon drizzle cake is easy to make/
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Lemon Drizzle Cake

This cake is a British favorite!
Prep Time10 mins
Cook Time40 mins
Course: Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: British
Keyword: british cake recipe, easy dessert recipes, lemon cake recipe
Servings: 12
Calories: 384kcal
Author: Judith Hannemann

Ingredients

  • 8 oz butter at room temperature plus extra for greasing
  • 8 oz sugar
  • 10 oz self-raising flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 4 eggs
  • 4 tbs milk
  • 2 lemons finely grated zest only

For the glaze:

  • 6 oz sugar
  • 2 lemons juice only
US Customary - Metric

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350F/180C. Grease a 13 x 9-inch pan with butter and line the pan (up the sides too) with parchment and grease that with butter too.
  • Measure all the ingredients into a large bowl and beat for 2 minutes, or until well blended. Turn the mixture into the prepared pan and level the top.
  • Bake for 35–40 minutes, until the cake has shrunk a little from the sides of the pan and springs back when lightly touched with a fingertip in the centre of the cake.
  • To make the glaze. Mix the sugar with the lemon juice and stir to a runny consistency.
  • Leave the cake to cool for 5 minutes in the pan, then lift out, with the lining paper still attached, and place on wire rack set over a tray.
  • Brush the glaze all over the surface of the warm cake and leave to set. Remove the lining paper and cut into slices to serve

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Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 384kcal | Carbohydrates: 54g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 17g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Cholesterol: 96mg | Sodium: 160mg | Potassium: 189mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 34g | Vitamin A: 560IU | Vitamin C: 19mg | Calcium: 67mg | Iron: 1mg
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  1. Anna says

    September 9, 2019 at 7:31 pm

    Sounds great. Can you please tell us how to make this recipe with regular, non raising flour. Thanks.

    • Judith Hanneman says

      September 9, 2019 at 9:11 pm

      Here’s the formula from King Arthur flour, but I was able to get a small bag of it at my store if you don’t want to bother making it yourself. There’s lots of stuff you can make with it though like the 2-ingredient dough that you can make lots of stuff with. My garlic knots and air fryer apple fritters use that dough.

      https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/homemade-self-rising-flour-recipe

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