Thursday, 26 September 2013

The Cupcake Lady - Lemon Cake


My trusty Lemon Cake it never fails me and its sure to impress your guests and yourself, it's lemon its light and just right for this weather why don't you give it a go this weekend.

 Love,

The Cupcake Lady 






Ingredients

125g butter
185g sugar
185g Self-raising flour
2 large eggs
2 lemons, rind grated

Syrup

6 tbsp fresh lemon juice
6 rounded tablespoon icing sugar

Method

1. pre-heat oven to 160c
2. Grease and line a loaf tin with baking paper
3. Cream butter and sugar and beat eggs
4. Add flour, lemon rind and milk and mix well
5. pour into tin and smooth top
6. Bake for 30-45mins check with a skewer (to check that it is fully baked skewer should come out of cake clean)





Syrup- mix lemon juice and sugar 

After removing cake from oven prick the top with a skewer and pour over the lemon juice while cake is still hot

IMPORTANT - leave until cold before removing from tin


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