How to make Lemon Drizzle Cake!

Hey everyone, today I have for you a recipe for my Lemon Drizzle Cake recipe.

This is one of my favourite things to bake as the aroma of when it is baking is amazing! If you like me doing baking posts, let me know in the comments? My dad works at Magnet, and he just built a new kitchen in his store, and its functionally working, so you can use it. He asked me and my sister to bake some things, so my sister made chocolate cupcakes, and I made mini lemon drizzle cakes. 

Lets get started!

Ingredients: 

6 ounces self raising flour

6 ounces caster sugar

6 ounces margarine

4 eggs

Zest of a lemon

1 tsp baking powder

Icing:

50g icing sugar

Juice 1/2 lemon

Method:

1. Preheat your oven to 160 degrees

2. Cream together the butter and sugar until its light and fluffy.

3. You then add the 4 eggs and the zest of a lemon, and beat well until it looks like this.

4. You then add the baking powder and the self raising flour, and mix to form a cake batter.

5. I have these 4 little mint green loaf tins, so I put my batter in their, you could put it into a bigger loaf tin, or into cupcake cases and make lemon drizzle cupcakes. You grease your tin, and then put equal amounts of the cake batter into each tin.

6. After this you put them into the oven for 35 minutes until they are golden. To check if they are done, stick a skewer into it and if it comes out clean, then they are baked. If it comes out with batter on it, put them in the oven for additional 5 minutes. Let the cakes cool for 20 minutes.

While you are waiting for the cakes to cool, make the icing!

Icing:

1. Juice half of a lemon into a bowl, make sure no pips go into it.

2. Add as much icing sugar (powdered sugar if your american) into the juice as you want, I like to have my icing quite thick so you can actually see it. But its your choice as to how thick you may want it.

3. When the cakes are finally cool, drizzle on your icing, and then eat them!

Hope you liked this recipe, and you can send me pictures on my twitter or instagram of how they turned out!

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