Lemon & Poppyseed Cake 🍋

Name: Lemon & Poppyseed Cake 🍋
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Cuisine: World Cuisine
Ingredients: 2 lemons; 225g soft butter; 225g caster sugar; 275g self-raising flour; 2 tsp baking powder; 4 eggs; 4 tbsp milk; 25g poppyseeds; 3 tbsp lemon juice; 225g icing sugar

6 steps

Prep:30minCook:35min

This is the best lemon cake I’ve made by far! It’s fluffy, moist, and has the perfect amount of lemon 🍋 Top with a cream cheese frosting and you’ve got yourself a winner ;)

Updated at: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 03:12:19 GMT

Nutrition balance score

Unbalanced

Glycemic Index

Moderate

Glycemic Load

High

Nutrition per serving

Calories299.1 kcal (15%)

Total Fat13.4 g (19%)

Carbs42.3 g (16%)

Sugars28.3 g (31%)

Protein3.7 g (7%)

Sodium285.6 mg (14%)

Fiber0.9 g (3%)

% Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Ingredients

16 servings

2lemons

225gbutter

soft

225gcaster sugar

275gself-raising flour

2 tspbaking powder

4eggs

4 Tbspmilk

25gpoppyseeds

Easy lemon icing

3 Tbsplemon juice

225gicing sugar

Instructions

Step 1

Pre-heat the oven to 180C/160Fan/Gas 4. Grease and line a 30 x 23 x 4cm (12" x 9" x 1 1⁄2") traybake tin or roasting tin with greased parchment paper.

Step 2

Using a zester remove the zest from one lemon and set aside for garnish. Finely zest the other lemon. Combine the lemon zest and sugar in a large bowl, and rub together with your fingers. This releases the fragrant lemon oil from the skin - to make the cake taste even better!

Step 3

Add the softened butter and mix until light and fluffy. Add the remaining ingredients into the bowl and mix until well-combined . Turn the mixture into the prepared tin and level the top.

Step 4

Bake in the pre-heated oven for about 35-40 minutes or until the cake is shrinking from the sides of the tin and springs back when pressed in the centre with your fingertips. Leave to cool in the tin. Once cool turn out and remove paper.

Step 5

Mix together the lemon juice, sieved icing sugar and to give a coating consistency. Spread out evenly over the cake sprinkle with reserved lemon zest and poppyseeds. Leave to set.

Step 6

Cut into squares to serve