Lemon Drizzle Cake
Lemon drizzle cake is a simple butter cake flavored with lemon zest and juice, and topped with a lemony icing.
Total
00:40
Yield
16
Ingredients
- 280 g (9.9 oz/2¼ sticks) unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing
- 280 g (9.9 oz/1¼ cups) superfine sugar
- 5 standard eggs
- Zest and juice of 1 lemon
- 300 g (11 oz/2¼ cups) self-raising flour
- 1½ teaspoons baking powder
- 150 g (5.3 oz/1¼ cups) powdered sugar
- Juice of ½ lemon
- Total:
- 00:40
- Yield:
- 16
Instructions
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1Preheat the oven to . Grease and line a square cake tin.
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2Beat the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl, until soft and fluffy.
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3Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then lemon juice and zest.
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4Fold the flour and baking powder into the mixture.
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5Spoon the mixture into the cake tin.
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6Bake for 25 minutes until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.
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7Transfer the cake to a wire rack and leave it to cool.
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8Mix the icing sugar and lemon juice in a bowl until it is thick enough to coat the back of spoon.
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9Drizzle the icing over the cake.
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10Enjoy!
- Category
- Desserts
- Method
- Baking
Recipe Attribution
Wikibooks Cookbook
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Printed on October 28, 2026