No Sugar Lemon Syrup Loaf Cake

No Sugar Lemon Syrup Loaf Cake
  • Author: sarahlabat

This delightful lemon drizzle cake is a perfect balance of zesty lemon flavor and sweet syrup, creating a moist and delicious treat. With a light and fluffy texture, this cake is sure to impress your taste buds with every bite.

— Constant Cookbook

Ingredients

  • 125g Unsalted Butter
  • 10g Granulated Sweetner
  • 2 Large Eggs
  • Zest of 1 Lemon
  • 175g Self Raising Flour
  • Pinch Salt (or use salted butter)
  • 4 tablespoons Milk
  • For the Syrup:
  • Juice of 2 lemons
  • 2 heaped Tbsps Granulated Sweetner
  • 3 Tbsps Limoncello Lemon Liqueur (optional)
  • 23x13x7cm loaf tin, buttered and lined.

Instructions

  • Preheat Oven to 180C/gas mark 4. Butter and line loaf tin well, ensuring that the lining comes up a cm or so up the sides of the tin.
  • Cream together butter & sweetner, add eggs and lemon zest, beating in well.
  • Add Flour & Salt (if using), folding in gently but throughly.
  • Then spoon into prepared loaf tin and put into oven.
  • While the cake is cooking, get on with the syrup: put the lemon juice & sweetner into a saucepan and heat gently until sweetner is dissolved. Add the lemoncello to the syrup.
  • Bake the cake for 45 mins, or until golden, risen in the middle (though it will sink a little on cooling) and an inserted cake tester comes out clean.
  • As soon as the cake is out of the oven puncture the top of the loaf all over with a skewer. Pour over the syrup, ensuring the middle absorbs it as well as the sides, then leave it to soak up the rest.
  • Leave the cake to cool COMPLETELY. If you try to take it out of the tin whilst warm it is liable to crumble as it is wet with syrup.
  • Serve

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Yield

Serves 10