Lilycancook: Lemon Butter Cake

The cake is soft n the top has lemony taste.

You can try this recipe from this link

I used my silicon cake pan but I still lined it and lifted it up easily to cool after baking.

Recipe

cake

100 gm SCS unsalted butter softened

25 gm Planta margarine

100 gm caster sugar

1/8 tsp salt

2 eggs

4 tbsp milk

175 gm self raising flour

1 lemon rind grated finely

Syrup

1 lemon juice

3 tbsp caster sugar

1 lemon rind grated finely

Method

Beat the butter, margarine and sugar till fluffy

Add the eggs in one at a time n beat well

Add in the lemon rind n beat in

Mix the flour and salt together

Fold in the flour n milk

Line a loaf tin and put batter in

Preheat oven to 180 C

Bake for 40 minutes

I tented with a piece of aluminium foil at about 30 minutes and continued baking

While cake is baking, boil the lemon juice n 3 tbsp caster sugar till sugar melts.

Then stir in the lemon rind n set aside.

Poke holes into the cake after baking.

Pour the lemon syrup over the cake.

Give it 5 minutes to let the syrup absorb into cake

Lift up the cake and cool on the rack

Beaten butter n sugar with lemon rind

Before bake

Cake looks like this after baking n syrup applied- easily lifted up from the pan

Cool before cutting

Note

You will have balance 1 lemon without rind.

I sliced it and made honey lemon drink with it

Enjoy!!

Lilycancook