Lemon-Syrup Loaf Cake

Name: Lemon-Syrup Loaf Cake
Yield: Serves 8–10
Ingredients: 4 tablespoons milk; juice of 1½ lemons (about 4 tablespoons); 100 g icing sugar; 175 g caster sugar; 125 g unsalted butter; pinch of salt; 175 g self-raising flour; zest of 1 lemon; 2 large eggs

Preparation info

Serves
8–10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How to be a Domestic Goddess

By Nigella Lawson

Published 1998

About

This isn’t, strictly speaking, a plain cake since it has a form of icing, but I can’t help feeling that its loafiness counts for a lot. Of course, you could cook this (for slightly less time) in a square, 18cm tin, cutting the syrup-drenched sponge into smaller squares later.

Ingredients

For the cake

125 g unsalted butter
175 g caster sugar
2

Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4, and butter and line your loaf tin well. In fact, unless you’re using my much-beloved Bake-O-Glide, make sure the lining comes a centimetre or so up the sides of the tin for easier unmoulding later.

Cream together the butter and sugar, and a