How to Make Perfect Zingy Lemon Drizzle Cake

Zingy Lemon Drizzle Cake.

You can have Zingy Lemon Drizzle Cake using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Zingy Lemon Drizzle Cake

1. Prepare 180 g of self-raising flour.
2. Prepare 180 g of caster sugar.
3. It's 180 g of butter.
4. Prepare 3 of medium eggs.
5. You need of Grated zest of 2 lemons.
6. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder.
7. You need 50 g of icing sugar.
8. It's of Juice of 2 lemons.

Zingy Lemon Drizzle Cake instructions

1. First tip all of the: self-raising flour, caster sugar, baking powder, butter, the 3 eggs and most of the lemon zest (the other bit is for decoration) into a mixing bowl then let them blend together..
2. Whilst your mixture is blending, line a pound loaf tin with grease profe paper..
3. Once all of the ingredients have mixed together, tip them in your tin and bake for 40 minutes then check with a skewer..
4. Whilst your cake is in the oven, put the icing sugar and the lemon juice in to a saucepan, let it come to the boil then leave for 1 minute..
5. When your cake has come out of the oven, let it cool for a while and then poke holes in it to the cake down to the bottom so the drizzle can soak in..
6. Once you have tipped the drizzle on to the cake, you can decorate with the excess lemon zest then if you want to make it look really good you can thinly chop lemon and place it on the top..
7. Enjoy!👍.