Adult Cake Competition Recipe

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Lemon Drizzle Loaf Cake!

An easy lemon drizzle loaf cake - lemon sponge, lemon drizzle, lemon icing... what more could you want?!

Prep time: 15 minutes Cook time: 1 hour Decorating time: 10 minutes Total time: 1 hour 25 minutes

Servings: 12 Slices 

Ingredients

For the Cake 

250 g unsalted butter

250 g caster sugar

250 g self raising flour

5 medium eggs

Zest of 2 lemons (2tsp lemon extract)

Drizzle

75 ml lemon juice

75 g caster sugar

Decoration

50 g icing sugar

1-2 tsps lemon juice

Lemon zest

Instructions

1. Preheat your oven to 180C/160C Fan - grease and line your 2lb loaf tin!

2. Beat together your butter and sugar together until light and creamy!

3. Add in your flour, eggs and lemon and beat again until combined. It'll be a smooth cake mixture!

4. Add the mix into the cake tin and bake. This can take 55-65 minutes - but check from 50 minutes onwards.

5. Towards the end of baking - in a bowl, mix together your 75ml lemon juice and 75g caster sugar together.

6. Once the cake is baked, drizzle this over the cake, whilst still in the tin. Let the cake cool fully.

7. Once the cake is cooled, remove from the tin.

8. If you want to decorate, mix in lemon juice to your icing sugar until you reach the desired consistency.

9. Drizzle this over the cake, and sprinkle on some lemon zest for decoration! Enjoy!

If it helps, I also use this baking parchment in my bakes!

As mentioned in the post, if you are using large eggs - use four large eggs, and 240g flour, sugar, butter.

If your cake sinks, it hasn't finished baking! Loaf tin baking times can vary so check on the cake from 50 minutes onwards.

This cake will last for 4-5 days at room temp! I store it in a cake storage tin.

You can easily water down the icing for the drizzle with water instead, but the lemon juice is more zingy!

If you want to make a smaller cake you can - reduce it down by one medium egg, and use 200g of ingredients. Or even reduce by two eggs, and use 150g of ingredients.

The fewer the ingredients the quicker the bake time!

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Children's cup cake competition

Children are invited to decorate a cup cake to enter.

This can be shop bought or home made.

Any design, the more creative the better!.