Cakes Recipes - Tangy Lemon Cake Recipe

  
 

Cakes Recipes - Tangy Lemon Cake

Ingredients

  • 175g butter

  • 175g caster sugar

  • 3 eggs, beaten

  • 175g self raising flour

  • grated rind of 1 orange

  • grated rind of 1 lemon

  • For the syrup

  • 115g caster sugar

  • juice of 2 lemons

Method:

  1. Preheat the oven to 180.C/350"F/Gas 4. Then grease a 900g/21b loaf tin.

  2. Beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, then gradually beat in the eggs. Fold in the flour and the orange and lemon rinds.

  3. Turn the cake mixture into the cake tin and bake for 1 1/4 - 1 1/2 hours, until set in the centre, risen and golden. Remove the cake from the oven, but leave in the tin.

  4. To make the syrup, gently heat the sugar in the lemon juice until melted, then boil for 15 seconds. Pour the syrup over the cake in the tin and leave to cool.