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Gluten Free Lemon Drizzle Loaf Cake

4.7

10 Ratings

45-50 minutes 1 loaf cake Nuts,Peanuts,Gluten,Wheat Vegetarian

About this recipe:

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A true classic! Perfect with a cup of tea and you will never know this is gluten free. 

Equipment:

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1kg/2lb loaf tin, zester, baking liner, mixing bowl and saucepan

Ingredients:

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Lemon Cake
175g FREEE Plain White Flour
½ tsp FREEE Bicarbonate of Soda
150g butter
150g caster sugar
3 eggs
2 lemons
butter, for tin

Lemon Drizzle
75g sugar
75ml lemon juice

Lemon Icing
1 lemon
75g icing sugar

Method:

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180°C, Fan 160°C, 350°F, Gas 4

Lemon Cake

  1. Pre-heat the oven.
  2. Rub some butter around the inside of a 1kg/2lb loaf tin or insert a baking liner.
  3. Measure the flour and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl and stir to combine.
  4. Put the butter and sugar into a mixing bowl and beat together until light and fluffy.
  5. Beat in the eggs one at a time, ensuring each is well incorporated before adding the next.
  6. Sieve the flour into the mixing bowl and stir to combine.
  7. Finely grate the lemon rind and squeeze the juice. Save the juice for later.
  8. Add the rind and any lemon pulp to the mixing bowl and mix well.
  9. Tip the mixture into the prepared loaf tin and smooth the top.
  10. Bake for 45-50 minutes, until a cocktail stick pressed into the sponge comes out clean.
  11. Allow the cake to cool in the tin.

Lemon Drizzle

  1. Pour the saved lemon juice into a jug and, if necessary, add more lemon juice to make it up to 75ml.
  2. Measure the sugar into a saucepan, add the lemon juice and cook over medium heat.
  3. Shake the pan occasionally and when the sugar is dissolved boil for a minute to make a syrup.
  4. Prick all over the surface of the cake with a cocktail stick, pressing right through the cake.
  5. Pour the syrup slowly all over top of the cake and leave to cool in the tin.

Lemon Icing

  1. Cut thin slices of zest from the lemon and squeeze the juice.
  2. Put the icing sugar into a bowl, add 3-4 teaspoons of lemon juice and stir to a thick consistency that will flow slightly
  3. Spread the icing over the top of the cake allowing it to dribble down the sides a little.
  4. Scatter the lemon zest over the icing.
  5. Leave to set before serving.

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