Lemon Drizzle Cake {Easiest Ever Recipe!}
This Lemon Drizzle Cake recipe is a fail-safe method that works every time without fuss or fanfare. It’s a classic bake and tastes simply delicious.
Servings: 10 Slices
Ingredients
Cake ingredients:
- 250 g Unsalted butter Plus extra for greasing your tin. See notes
- 250 g Caster sugar See notes
- 4 Eggs Medium. See notes
- 250 g Self-raising flour
- 3 Lemons Zest only. (Reserve the zested fruit for the juice for the drizzle.) See notes
For the drizzle:
- 100 g Icing sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 160℃/325 fan, 180℃/350F or Gas Mark 4 and grease your loaf tin and line it with baking paper.
- Put all of the cake ingredients into a large bowl and beat until smooth.
- Spoon into the prepared tin and smooth out. Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
For the drizzle:
- While the cake is still warm in the tin, use a skewer or thin sharp knife to poke holes all over it.
- Mix the icing sugar with enough of the juice of the lemons to make a thin paste. Add the liquid gradually so it stays nice and smooth. (This is normally 1-and-a-half lemons, but will depend on how big and juicy they were!)
- Pour all over the cake and allow to sink in.
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Notes
Cooking time: The exact time it needs in the oven will depend on your oven temperature. Mine takes about 1hr 15 to bake through properly, but keep an eye on yours after 45 minutes in case yours bakes quicker.
Butter: I like to use unsalted butter for baking as it is flavourless. If you only have salted it will be fine though. It's not vital
Caster sugar: Golden caster sugar works well here if you have it
Eggs: Free range please! If you want to be exact and ensure success, weigh them in their shells and they should total about 250g/9oz
Lemons: If you can buy unwaxed lemons, these are best as you will be eating the zest
Nutrition
Calories: 440kcal | Carbohydrates: 56g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 22g | Saturated Fat: 13g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 119mg | Sodium: 29mg | Potassium: 101mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 36g | Vitamin A: 727IU | Vitamin C: 17mg | Calcium: 28mg | Iron: 1mg