Gluten Free Lemon Drizzle
This cake has a deliciously soft sponge with zingy lemon. It’s a classic, crowd-pleaser, perfect for the summer months.
Credited to: FREEE
Kcal:
Serves 10
20 mins prep
45 mins cooking time
Ingredients
Lemon Cake
- 175g FREEE Plain White Flour
- ½ tsp FREEE Bicarbonate of Soda
- 150g butter
- 150g caster sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 lemons
- butter, for tin
Lemon Drizzle
- 75g sugar
- 75ml lemon juice
Lemon Icing
- 1 lemon
- 75g icing sugar
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Method
Lemon Cake
- Pre-heat the oven to 180°C, Fan 160°C, 350°F, Gas 4.
- Rub some butter around the inside of a 1kg/2lb loaf tin or insert a baking liner.
- Measure the flour and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl and stir to combine.
- Put the butter and sugar into a mixing bowl and beat together until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the eggs one at a time, ensuring each is well incorporated before adding the next.
- Sieve the flour into the mixing bowl and stir to combine.
- Finely grate the lemon rind and squeeze the juice. Save the juice for later.
- Add the rind and any lemon pulp to the mixing bowl and mix well.
- Tip the mixture into the prepared loaf tin and smooth the top.
- Bake for 45 minutes, until a cocktail stick pressed into the sponge comes out clean.
- Allow the cake to cool in the tin.
Lemon Drizzle
- Pour the saved lemon juice into a jug and, if necessary, add more lemon juice to make it up to 75ml.
- Measure the sugar into a saucepan, add the lemon juice and cook over medium heat.
- Shake the pan occasionally and when the sugar is dissolved boil for a minute to make a syrup.
- Prick all over the surface of the cake with a cocktail stick, pressing right through the cake.
- Pour the syrup slowly all over top of the cake and leave to cool in the tin.
Lemon Icing
- Cut thin slices of zest from the lemon and squeeze the juice.
- Put the icing sugar into a bowl, add 3-4 teaspoons of lemon juice and stir to a thick consistency that will flow slightly
- Spread the icing over the top of the cake allowing it to dribble down the sides a little.
- Scatter the lemon zest over the icing.
- Leave to set before serving.
