Lemon Drizzle Cake Recipe

Lemon Drizzle Cake Recipe with step by step pictures. This recipe is a classic bake, so simple and delicious can be served as afternoon tea cake that sounds as good as it tastes.

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Lemon Drizzle Cake

I love love good food magazine, they have so many delicious recipes in them and beautiful pictures which really tempt me a lot to try those recipes..I have already made few recipes from that magazine, one of that is my raw banana podi fry..

Ingredients for Lemon Drizzle Cake Recipe

Oil – ½ cup / 120 ml
All Purpose Flour / Maida – 1.5 cups / 180 grams
Baking Powder – 3 tsp
Powdered Almonds / Badam Powder – 50 grams or ½ cup
Polenta or Sooji – 50 grams or ¼ cup+1 tbsp
Lemon Zest – 1 tbsp
Sugar – ¾ cups / 150 grams
Eggs – 2
Thick Unsour Curd / Yogurt – 240 ml / 1 cup
Yellow Food Coloring a pinch

For Lemon Syrup:

Sugar – ½ cup
Lemon Juice – 4 tbsp
Water – 3 tbsp

When i was referring the magazine few weeks back, i came across this cake recipe. The picture tempted me a lot to try, so tried it immediately and loved it instantly.

This cake is a little denser and the lemon taste just came through it. Specially the citrus lemon syrup speaks for itself. Loved it to the core, i changed the recipe as per the available ingredients and it turned out super good..I hope you will try this and let me know how it turned out.

How to Make Lemon Drizzle Cake Recipe

Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Prepare a 20 cm round cake pan by greasing it with oil and flouring it well. Check this out.
Now mix flour, baking powder, sugar, lemon zest, sooji, powdered almonds and mix well.
In a jug, add in oil, curd, eggs and mix well.
Pour this over the dried ingredients and mix gently. Add a pinch of yellow colour, and this is optional.
Now pour this whole batter in the pan.
Bake for 40 mins or until a skewer inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
Cover loosely with foil for the final 5-10 mins if it starts to brown too quickly.
Once it is cooled, invert it to a plate.
Make sugar syrup, take sugar, lemon juice and water in a sauce pan. heat it gently, once the sugar is melted bring this to a boil.
Once it reaches a boil. Turn off the heat and let it get warm.
Now poke small holes all over the cake using a skewer. Spoon the syrup over the cake, let it sit for 15 mins.
Slice and serve.

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