comidas : Lemon Drizzle Cake

I promised my Mum to sent her this recipe.

 

She doesn´t live around the corner, only a few thousand kilometers away.

 

Or less than a day away if you fly as directly as possible from here to Amsterdam. Not if you take an unscheduled detour via Maputo and miss your plane in Nairobi like we did last year. We landed at NBO and "our plane" took off immediately after we landed ... we spent a very short night in NBO and left the next morning for AMS. We made it and that is all that counts. You need to be a wee bit flexible when you live in Africa, just a wee bit.

 

Why not sent it to you all.

 

It is a super easy and yummy cake, made in a flash, easy for children.

They they can throw everything in at once and mix well.

If the kids can do it you can!

 

BTW it is not my recipe, I received it from a very dear friend and it originally came from Mrs S. Parfit and was published in the Daily Telegraph (years ago)

 

Here we go.

 

Lemon Drizzle Cake

 

For the cake:

110 gr soft butter

170 gr self raising flour , approx. 1 cup (I use bread flour and add 2 tsp baking powder)

170 gr sugar

4 tbsp milk

grated rind of a large lemon (or a lot off small ones)

2 eggs

 

For the syrup:

3 tbsp icing sugar (if not available heat up the lemon juice with the sugar until sugar is dissolved)

juice of a lemon

 

• Preheat oven to 180C - 350 F
• line baking tin (2lb or 6-7 in or 15-18cm) with baking paper or just plain grease and dust it (like I do), baking paper is not easy to get here
• beat the cake ingredients together until smooth -with whatever you have, wooden spoon or mixer, as long as it´s mixed and smooth-
• scrape the mix into the tin
• bake for about an hour, covering the cake after 40 minutes if it gets too dark -I normally bake this cake in a lamington tray and bake it for 25-30 minutes @ 180C, and never cover it- see what works best for you and your oven, cut in small squares before serving-
• Mix the syrup ingredients together
• while the cake is still warm prick it all over with a skewer or a fork
• pour over the syrup
• leave it to cool in the tin before serving

Enjoy!

 

To give you an idea how the end result can look -if round-

 

Picture taken from www.ladybutterworths.co.uk

 

 

There are more recipes to post in "comidas". What about a Dutch appletart, it is really yummy, my grandmothers recipe. Who votes it in? or pumpkin bread, brownies ...

 

Wow I am soooo happy that I can post now without a hickup, well maybe a tiny one.

 

Have a wonderful week.

 

Today I go to the "girls" of our church again. They make dolls now, or a bird or chicken.

And it is such a joy to see what they are making.