Baking ingredients
- 240 g unsalted butter - softened
- 200 g caster sugar
- 1 lemon – grated zest and juice
- 3 large eggs
- 210 g self-raising flour
- 90 g plain flour
Decorating ingredients
- 1 lemon – juice only
- 150 g icing sugar
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Instructions
Baking Instructions:
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas mark 4.
Step 2
Cream the unsalted butter and caster sugar then add the lemon zest.
Step 3
Mix in the eggs one at a time, adding a tablespoon of self-raising flour between each egg to prevent the mixture from curdling.
Step 4
Mix in the rest of the self-raising flour and plain flour and then the lemon juice.
Step 5
Pour the mixture into a lined and greased deep 20cm round baking tin and sprinkle with caster sugar.
Step 6
Bake for 1 hour or until a cake skewer comes out clean.
Step 7
Leave to cool completely before removing from the loaf tin.
Decorating Instructions:
Step 8
Stir the lemon juice into the icing sugar until you the icing is thick and gloopy and drizzle over the top of the cake.
Step 9
Leave the icing to set.
