My nan usually bakes a couple every month, for him to work his way through (quickly) so I thought why not make one for him myself. Especially as I came across this post on 'The Londoners' blog when looking at recipes. Her photographs made it look so delicious I just had to make it.
I made it slightly differently but used the same ingredients and it tasted delicious! Just the right amount of lemon and lovely and moist.
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I apologise for the naff quality of the photos, the weather is dark and dreary today and upon lightening the photos up it seems to have made them blurry!
Ingredients:
For the cake-
- 170g unsalted butter
- 170g caster sugar
- 3 eggs, beaten
- zest of 2 lemons
- 170g self raising flour
- juice of 1 lemon
- 2 tbsp icing sugar (its supposed to be very runny so it seeps into the cake)
For the drizzle-
- juice of half a lemon
- 5 tbsp icing sugar (will vary on how juicy your lemon is, it should be quite thick and almost white)
Preheat your oven to 180c, and grease and line a loaf tin with baking paper.
In a large bowl cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Slowely add in the beaten eggs and beat together.
Add the lemon zest and mix well.
Sift in your flour and gently fold in with a metal spoon until combined.
Pour the batter into your loaf tin and place into the oven for 30 minutes.
After 30 minutes turn down your oven to 150c, and leave for another 10 minutes.
Once baked (put a skewer in the middle, if it comes out clean its done.) leave to cool for 5 minutes before taking out of the tin and leaving to cool on a cooling rack.
For the glaze , mix together the lemon juice and icing sugar until smooth.
Poke holes with a skewer into the cooled cake, and pour the glaze over the top, so that it runs down into the holes. Then for the drizzle, again, mix together the lemon juice and icing sugar (it should be a lot thicker then the glaze) and using this to drizzle back and forth over the cake.
That looks amazingly good
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