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Lemon Cake Recipe

Vegetarian
Lemon Cake Recipe
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Ingredients

For the recipe:
  • 200g organic butter
  • 4free-range organic eggs
  • 300g caster sugar
  • 2 lemon (unwaxed)
  • 8tbsps organic milk
  • 300g organic self-raising flour

A cake for a special birthday, great fun to decorate and of course eat in big slices

Method

01
Grease 2 x 20cm cake tins with a pastry (or paint) brush; turn the tin upside down after greasing to allow any excess oil to drain away. Heat oven to 160°C.
02
Mix the butter, free-range eggs and organic Fairtrade sugar together. Sift in the organic flour and add the milk. Grate in the lemon rind. Spoon the mixture into a cake tin and bake for 45 - 60 minutes, or until top springs back when pressed lightly. Cool on a rack before cutting.
03
For the topping: mix lemon juice into icing sugar and spoon over the still warm cake.