For those not with a New Year’s resolution of no sugary treats I have the perfect afternoon tea snack. I found it on the Sainsburys website just before Christmas when I was looking for inspiration on how to use up the lemons I had left after making Limoncello.
It is deliciously moist but sturdy and not too tart which I find some lemon cakes can be.
Ingredients
- 225g soft butter
- 4 large eggs
- 55g ground almonds
- 397g condensed milk
- grated zest & juice of 1 lemon
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 tablespoon poppy seeds
for the syrup
- Juice from 3 large lemons
- 100g icing sugar
for the icing
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 100g icing sugar
- Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350ºF/Gas mark 4
- Whisk all the cake ingredients together with an electric mixer until smooth and pale
- Pour into a deep lined cake tin and bake for 55-65 minutes. Test if the cake is cooked with a skewer. If it comes out clean the cake is cooked. Leave the cake in the tin.
- For the syrup, warm the lemon juice and add the icing sugar. Let the icing sugar dissolve. Make holes with a skewer into the top of the warm cake and spoon the syrup over letting it seep through the cake. Cool the cake in the tin
- For the icing, slowly add the lemon juice to the icing sugar and mix until smooth. Remove the cooled cake from the tin and drizzle over the icing.
- Eat!
That looks absolutely gorgeous! Love lemon cake. Will definitely have to give it a go.
Thank you Heather, I thought it was very nice. 😉
Oh this looks lovely I love lemon cake will have to try
this one soon xx
it’s very good! You could always halve the ingredients and make a smaller one, it’s quite big. x
The cake looks so delicious! I can’t wait to try this one at home! Love the last step there, Eat!
My favourite step too. 🙂
nom nom nom 🙂 another recipe to save for my post
gestational diabetes splurge 😉
Oh no….how cruel is that! Not much longer now. XX
I love poppy seeds in either lemon or orange cake! Major cravings now 🙂
It’s delicious! 🙂
Looks yummy I love Lemon Cake but couldn’t make it if it contained condensed milk because if I have any of that in the house, I just open the tin and eat it all!
Haha…..you use the whole tin so no chance of that….go on!!! 😉
I do love a slice of lemon cake!
I like step 6 the best. 🙂
Me too! 😉