Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Lemon Cake recipe

Taste testing of this lemon cake took place at the Callan Park Sprint Series! So here is the recipe by popular demand:

250g butter
250g sugar
5 eggs
grated skin of 2 lemons
250g flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 pinch of salt

Beat butter until smooth.
Add sugar and eggs in turn, beat well.
Add grated lemon skin.
Mix flour, baking powder and salt into cake mix and fill it into a greased cake form
(28-30cm long) .

Bake: in the middle of the preheated oven (fan forced) at about 160C for 50-60 minutes. Leave cake in the form until it has cooled down. Puncture holes into cake with a skewer and pour following juice over the holes and onto cake.

100ml lemon juice (about 3-4 lemons)
100g icing sugar

Make sure you get all of this juice into the cake and it will turn out nice and moist.

(you might have figuered out that this recipe has been translated from German into English; so apologies for any weird descriptions)