Recipe 12: Lemon Drizzle Cake

Ingredients:

Oil 150ml 
caster sugar 200g 
Beaten eggs 4 
Plain Flour 200g 
Soured Cream 150ml 
Grated rind and juice of a lemon 1 

Icing:


Icing Sugar 4tsps 

1: Grease an 8inch cake tin. Preheat oven to 260c/Gas Mark 4
2: Sieve flour and baking powder in a bowl, then mix in sugar.
3: Whisk eggs, soured cream, lemon rind, half of lemon juice and oil.
4: Pour in tin and bake for 45-60 mins. Until golden brown.
5: When almost finished baking, make syrup by heating icing sugar and lemon juice in small pan on a low heat until it begins to bubble and turns syrupy.
6: As soon as cake comes out of the oven prick with a skewer and brush syrup over the top.

To see how I fared at this recipe check out this post!