Recipe: Lemon Cake

It seems Mondays are a good day to do some baking. Last week I made some Russian Fudge and it proved to be quite popular among my friends, family and here on the blog. Check out what I made today! Recipe below. 

Yesterday I was given a bag of lemons, and when you are given lemons - you make Lemon Cake! Well I do. Originally, I was going to make a Lemon Slice because a friend of mine gave me a special recipe, however I was missing a couple of ingredients, so I decided to make a Lemon Cake instead. This recipe is really easy and the cake is moist, and oh-so delicious - a perfect treat to have with a nice, hot cup of tea. 

Ingredients

For the Cake

1 cup self-raising flour

1 tspn baking powder

1 pinch of salt

1 tspn vanilla essence

125ml butter (melted)

3/4 cup caster sugar

2 eggs

2 lemons (juice and rind)

For the Glaze

50ml butter

1/2 cup caster sugar

1 lemon juice (large)

Method

1. Pre-heat the over to about 180oC
2. Grease cake tin with baking paper and butter
3. Sift all the dry ingredients together (flour, baking powder, and salt)
4. In a separate bowl, mix butter and sugar then add eggs one at a time beating in between each egg. Together with the vanilla essence, add the lemon rind and lemon juice
5. Add the dry ingredients a little bit at a time, to the wet mixture, beat each time
6. Place mixture in cake tin and bake for about 45 min - 1 hour (depending on your oven)
7. About 10 minutes before the cake comes out of the oven - melt the sugar, butter and lemon juice together and spoon lemon syrup over the hot cake
8. Leave on a wire rack to cool

Enjoy!

Charlene

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