Gluten Free Lemon Drizzle Traybake
About this recipe:
This gluten free lemon drizzle cake is cooked as a traybake so that it can be cut into portion sizes. Stored in a tin or wrapped in kitchen foil, this cake will keep well for several days. For a special treat, gently warm the cake and serve it with mascarpone or double cream.
Equipment:
15 x 20cm/6 x 8β baking tray, skewer or bbq stick, 2 x mixing bowls and saucepan
Ingredients:
Lemon Cake
150g butter
150g caster sugar
1 tbsp lemon rind, grated
3 eggs
175g FREEE Self Raising White Flour
butter, for tin
Lemon Drizzle
75ml lemon juice
75g granulated sugar
Lemon Icing
2 tbsp icing sugar
Β½ tsp lemon juice
Method:
180°C, Fan 160°C, 350°F, Gas 4
Lemon Cake
- Pre-heat the oven.
- Rub some butter around the inside of a 15 x 20cm/6 x 8β baking tray or insert a cake liner.
- Cut the butter into small cubes and put them into a mixing bowl.
- Add the sugar and beat together until light and fluffy.
- Finely grate the lemon rind into the bowl.
- Break the eggs into the bowl one at a time, ensuring each is well incorporated before adding the next.
- Sieve the flour into the bowl and stir it into the mixture.
- Tip the mixture into the prepared baking tray, spreading it into the corners.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes.
- Leave the traybake in its tin.
Lemon Drizzle
- Squeeze the grated lemons to make 75ml of juice. Add more lemon if necessary.
- Put the juice and granulated sugar into a saucepan over a medium heat and stir until the sugar is dissolved and a syrup has formed.
- Prick the surface of the cake with a skewer or bbq stick.
- Pour the syrup slowly all over the top of the warm cake.
- When completely cold, cut into small squares.
Lemon Icing
- Put the icing sugar into a bowl and add the lemon juice.
- Stir to make icing.
- Take a teaspoon of icing and dribble it over the cake in a zig zag fashion.
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Valerie Pattwell
Super easy to make and delicious. I used 1 1/2 lemons to add extra moistness and tartness from lemon drizzle. Served at our WI meeting who all enjoyed it. Improvised on flour as I didn't have SR but all purpose by adding 2tsp GF baking powder
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Sarah G
Worked beautifully but I would cut back on the drizzle next time and make the icing with water instead of lemon juice. Just a bit too much lemon.
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Pri
Beautiful sponge! This was such an easy recipe with very few ingredients. I couldn't find my square baking tin so used my loaf tin instead and made a delicious lemon drizzle loaf! Next time I probably would not use as much drizzle, or barely any really and I didn't make the icing because the loaf was already really sweet. If you have a crazy sweet tooth then go for it, but even with the just loaf and drizzle (as per instructions) was already super sweet, could only manage a few bites! But still delicious nonetheless and received many compliments. Just be wary if you have diabetes! (as I made this for my grandparents!)
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Robyn Weir
Almost comes out perfect. So light and fluffy and easy to do. My family keeps casually asking me to make it again!
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Morag Lamping
I think this is an excellent cake I've baked it with Lime and again with grapefruit and all three were delicious
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Mim Thorpe
2 tbsp water?
Hi - thank you so much for bringing this to our attention. We have amended the method to reflect the addition of water and this should be added with the lemon rind. Happy Baking! Best wishes, Doves Farm.
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Jill
Good recipe thank you but neither butter nor marscapone are dairy free
We are glad you liked the recipe and thank you for highlighting this error to us, which we have now amended. Many thanks, Doves Farm.
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