Sunday, July 31, 2016

Iced Lemon Cake

An old tea-time favourite. 

For the cake mix: 
125g butter
grated rind 1 lemon
2 eggs
2 tablespoons milk
200g self-raising flour 
50g cornflour
0.5 teaspoons baking powder

Tin: 20cm round. Grease and line. Oven to 190c. Beat butter, sugar, lemon rind, then eggs,and milk and then dry ingredients. Bake for 40-50 mins. Turn out. 

Syrup 
2tablespoons water 
2 tablespoons lemon juice 
50g caster sugar 
1 tablespoon arak, ouzo or cointreau 

Heat into a syrup, saturate cake with it. 

When done, drizzle over thick icing and sprinkle on some lemon peel for cuteness. Nice crumbly textured cake. 




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