Hi lovelies ♥
Tonight I'm craving something sweet, kind of like I do every night - I'm a total sugar junkie ;)
So I thought I would share this amaaazing lemon cake recipe with you, if I wasn't so lazy, I would be making this right now! haha.
Feel free to adjust the lemon zest to your personal taste, I like an obvious but not over-powering lemon taste, so I always go with 2 tablespoons lemon zest :)
I hope you love this as much as I do!
Ingredients:
- 550ml Flour
- 3 Extra large eggs
- 3 Teaspoons baking powder
- 1 pinch of salt
- 150g Butter or margarine
- 200ml milk
- 50ml lemon juice
- 2 Tablespoons lemon zest
- 300ml Castor sugar
Method:
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius
- Cream butter until it's soft and light in colour. (medium speed on electrical beater)
- Add sugar, a tablespoon at a time, and continue creaming until light and fluffy.
- Add lemon zest.
- Add eggs one at a time, beating well in between each addition.
- Add Vanilla essence and lemon juice
- Sift dry ingredients and add to the mixture alternately with the milk. (a lil' bit of flour and then a lil' bit of milk ;) )
Pour mixture into a greased 22cm cake tin and bake for about 45 minutes (depending on your oven) if a skewer stick comes out clean, it's ready!
This cake is so delicious with butter icing, but I didn't have any icing sugar on the day I baked the cake in the picture, so I iced it with cooked flour frosting, which was really good too!
Let me know if you try this recipe, you won't be sorry! ( Well, you might be sorry after you get on the scale hehe)
See you soon loves xoxo
Adel