Thursday 23 January 2014

Baking a Lemon Drizzle Cake.

Hello beautiful ladies (and gentlemen?),

I watched Tanya Burr's baking video with Zoella a couple of days ago (if you didn't watch it, make sure to check it out because it's hilarious) and I decided to try it out today because they said that it's Delicious and it looked pretty amazing as well.


It is a pretty simple recipe to do and if you want you can check Tanya's video to see what you need and how to do it but I as well am going to include the ingredients and the simple method here.

You will need these utensils:
- a Kitchen Aid (Stand Mixer)
- a Measuring Scale
- Grater
- Juicer
- a Baking Tin
- a Baking Sheet

You will need these ingredients:
- 3 large Eggs
- Lemon Zest
- 170g Self-Raising Flour
- 170g Caster Sugar
- 170g Butter
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 110g Icing Sugar
- 2 Lemons

The Method:
- Preheat the oven (180 degrees Celsius).
- Before you start mixing the ingredients together, measure all the ingredients on the measuring scale, sift the flour with a sifter, grate the lemon zest with a grater and cut the butter into small pieces.
- Crack the eggs into the kitchen aid mixing bowl. Add the flour, sugar, butter, lemon zest and baking powder.
- Once you've put all the ingredients in the mixing bowl, switch on the kitchen aid and turn it to a minimum speed for about 2 minutes. Once all the ingredients are kind of mixed together, set to maximum speed and leave it for about 10 to 15 minutes until the batter is smooth.
- In the meantime you can spread some butter over the baking tin or you can just place a baking sheet so the cake will not stick to it.
- Once the batter is ready, pour it into a tin and place it in the oven and leave it for about 30 - 45 minutes, checking on it every now and then with a skewer.
- In the meantime you can start making the drizzle. Place the icing sugar into a bowl and add the lemon juice of the two lemons. Mix the two ingredients together until you end up with a nice liquidy drizzle.
- When the cake is ready, leave it to cool for about 15 minutes and place it on the serving plate. Make some holes with a knife or with a skewer depending on how much you like the lemon taste. Decorate it as you wish and you can serve it with tea or however you wish.



Pretty simple huh?! I am eating it while I'm writing and it's almost gone! It is THAT GOOD. If you haven't tried it yet, you should because it tastes amazing and it is so soft. Thank you Tanya for this amazing recipe.

If you tried it or you want to try it, tweet the pictures to me @CasualScrolling so that I can see how yours turned up.



Also if you have changed something in the batter or added some other ingredients let me know in the comments below.

Stay Beautiful,
Belle xxx




2 comments:

  1. I absolutely adore lemon drizzle cakes and this looks so lovely! Im definitely going to try this so thank you for the great recipe! :) xx

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    1. I completely agree with you! Love anything lemony :D It's not my own recipe though, it was Tanya Burr's and I just wrote a blog post about it. However thankyou so much :)

      Stay Beautiful
      Belle xxx

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