Luscious lemon cake
Add a little zing to your autumn baking with this deliciously easy lemon cake! Wonderfully moist and drizzled with a zesty lemon icing, it's sure to be a winning dessert among kids and adults alike.
- 25 mins preparation
- 45 mins cooking
- Serves 8
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Ingredients
Luscious lemon cake
- 125 gram butter, at room temperature
- 3/4 cup caster sugar
- 2 eggs, at room temperature
- 2 cup self-raising flour
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 1/4 cup milk
- strips of lemon zest, to decorate
Lemon icing
- 1 cup icing sugar
- 2 tablespoon lemon juice
Method
Luscious lemon cake with lemon icing
- 1Preheat oven to 180ºC/160ºC fan-forced. Grease and line a deep 20cm (base measurement) round cake pan with baking paper. Using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar in a bowl until pale and creamy. Add eggs, one by one, beating well after each addition. Sift flour over butter mixture. Add juice and milk; stir to combine.
- 2Spoon mixture into prepared pan; level surface. Bake for 45 minutes or until a skewer inserted at centre comes out clean. Stand cake in pan for 5 minutes, then turnout onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- 3Meanwhile, to make lemon icing; sift icing sugar into a large bowl. Gradually add juice, stirring until smooth.
- 4Spread lemon icing over cooled cake, allowing it to drip down sides. Serve sprinkled with zest.
