Turkish Lemon Cake

Name: Turkish Lemon Cake
Yield: Serves 8-10
Cuisine: Greek
Ingredients: 100 ml (3½ fl oz) water; 75 g (2¾ oz) caster sugar; 50 ml (2 fl oz) lemon juice; 170 g (6 oz) butter, softened; 300 g (10½ oz) caster sugar; 3 eggs; 300 g (10½ oz) self-raising flour, sifted; 1 tsp baking powder; ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda; 3 tsp finely grated lemon zest; 80 ml (3 fl oz) orange juice

Preparation info

Serves
8-10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

World's Best Cakes

By Roger Pizey

Published 2013

About

With lemons growing so abundantly in Greece and Turkey, a lemon cake is a perennial favourite tea-time treat for every family.

Ingredients

170 g (6 oz) butter, softened
300 g (10½

Europe
Asia
Greece
Turkey
Mediterranean
Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 170°C/325°F/gas mark 3, and grease and line a 25cm x 8cm x 8cm (10in x 3¼in x 3¼in) loaf tin with baking parchment.
Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
Add the eggs one at a time, scraping down the