Lemon Drizzle Loaf Cake

This lemon drizzle is super easy to make. It requires no effort on your part but produces a delicious cake with a moist sponge and super lemon taste.

Ingredients:

• 200g unsalted butter, softened 
• 200g caster sugar
• 4 large free range eggs 
• 200g self raising flour 
• 4 lemons 
• 3tbsp milk
• 135g caster sugar for the drizzle 

Line a loaf tin with baking paper and preheat your oven to 170C.

Best the butter and 200g caster sugar in a mixer for 5 minutes, until pale and creamy. 

Add the eggs one at a time (don’t worry if it looks curdled), beating well inbetween adding each egg. Add the flour and mix until well incorporated, now add the lemon zest of 3 lemons and the milk and mix.

Spoon the mixture into your prepared loaf tin and bake for 50-55 minutes until golden and a skewer pushed in the centre comes out clean.

Meanwhile, mix the juice of 3 lemons with 75g caster sugar in a jug and mix until the sugar has dissolved. As soon as the cake has come out of the oven, poke lots of holes all over the cake then pour the lemon mixture all over. Leave to cool in the cake tin.

After 20 minutes, grate the zest of 1 lemon and and add the juice to a bowl. Add 60g of caster sugar and mix. Brush the mixture onto the cake. Leave the cake to cool completely before taking out of the tin.

Enjoy your lemon drizzle loaf cake! Bon appétit!!