We came across this lemon drizzle cake recipe watching the brilliant River Cottage Bites programmes. I'm recovering from a recent serious accident involving my eye and in the early recovery days had been watched rather a lot of television and River Cottage was one of my favourites. As I recovered I managed to do some baking with the kids and we all really enjoyed it, for me it was great to be getting back towards normality.
As well as all of the birthday cakes in earlier posts we made a number of these lemon drizzle cakes - they were so good we were making them two at a time. The kids' Nana said it was the best cake she'd ever tasted, which is praise indeed, and is pestering for us to make some more.
A wonderful combination of sweetness and sourness from the lemons makes this cake a delicious treat.
Preheat the oven to 180C
Put all the cake ingredients in a bowl and mix well until you've a smooth batter. We used an electric hand-held mixer but elbow grease will do it too
Grease and flour a loaf tin. This is a really handy hint where you grease the tin with butter, put flour in the bottom and move it around until all of the inside is covered in a dusting of flour. Discard the excess flour. Watch our top tips video to see how this is done...
Pour the ingredients into the loaf tin
Bake in the oven for 40-45 minutes. It's worth checking before this time to see how it is doing
Whilst the cake is baking, mix the drizzle ingredients in a bowl
After the cake has come out of the oven, and is still hot and in the tin, use a skewer to make lots of holes in the cake and spoon over the drizzle so it oozes into the holes in the cake
Leave for a while and then empty the cake out and leave it to cool on a wire rack
The children can do most of this cake. Older children can carefully use the a microplane to take the rind off the lemons and they all loved squeezing the lemons to get the juice. In fact after they had finished with the cake they squeezed loads more lemons along with oranges and limes and made a seriously tangy juice. They spent ages doing it and had an absolute ball.
Ingredients
Directions
Preheat the oven to 180C
Put all the cake ingredients in a bowl and mix well until you've a smooth batter. We used an electric hand-held mixer but elbow grease will do it too
Grease and flour a loaf tin. This is a really handy hint where you grease the tin with butter, put flour in the bottom and move it around until all of the inside is covered in a dusting of flour. Discard the excess flour. Watch our top tips video to see how this is done...
Pour the ingredients into the loaf tin
Bake in the oven for 40-45 minutes. It's worth checking before this time to see how it is doing
Whilst the cake is baking, mix the drizzle ingredients in a bowl
After the cake has come out of the oven, and is still hot and in the tin, use a skewer to make lots of holes in the cake and spoon over the drizzle so it oozes into the holes in the cake
Leave for a while and then empty the cake out and leave it to cool on a wire rack
