Here is your Friday feasts recipe for this week, by request I am giving you a lemon cake recipe to try. I have done a fingers version, rather than a whole cake, but it could be cooked and served how you like it.
The best sorts of cakes are the simple ones, and this is a easy recipe.
Ingredients
5oz/145g Soft margarine
5oz/145g Sugar
5.5oz/155g self raising flour
3 eggs
Zest of one lemon
Topping -
200g icing sugar
2 tbsp lemon juice
A little water
Method
Oven on to Gas 4, 180' and prepare a rectangular baking tin, lining with grease proof paper.
1 Put all of the cake ingredients into a mixing bowl and beat for a few minutes until well mixed (Or until your arm aches too much to mix anymore!) You could pop it into an electric food mixer for ease, just mix for a couple of minutes
2 Spread mixture into cake tin and put into the oven for about 30 minutes
3 Transfer on to a wire cooling rack and whilst cooling make the topping.
4 Mix the icing sugar,, lemon juice and water together and then spread evenly over your cooled cake
5 When the icing is firm cut your cake into fingers and enjoy :)
Hints and tips
~You could make this cake with orange or lime instead
~ Change the icing for a butter icing with lemon zest, or mix the lemon juice with granulated sugar instead to make a crunchy topping
Let me know how you get on and what kind of recipes you would like to see on the blog
Hopefully next week will be a seasonal recipe, Rhubarb based, if the chickens don't demolish the plants first
Ruth
scrummy - I added blueberries to mine as I had a punnet knocking around in the fridge that needed using up. Just folded them in to the mixture, however, with hindsight I think I should have just popped them on the top of the mix as they sank to the bottom :0( still tasted good though :0)
ReplyDeleteThanks Julie, Great idea, maybe it would help to add a little more flour to thee mix, that might hold the fruit better? :)
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