Lemon and Poppy Drizzle Cake
Lemon and Poppy Drizzle Cake

Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, lemon and poppy drizzle cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

For the icing, mix the icing sugar, limoncello and a little lemon juice until you have a thick icing. Drizzle it over the top of the cake, encouraging it to run down the sides a little. Double Lemon Drizzle Cake with Poppy Seeds This is the definitive Lemon Drizzle cake, and we have used four lemons. There's almost as much drizzle as cake, so after you bite through the crunchy crust it is very lemony and syrupy inside.

Lemon and Poppy Drizzle Cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Lemon and Poppy Drizzle Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lemon and poppy drizzle cake using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Lemon and Poppy Drizzle Cake:
  1. Prepare Cake
  2. Get 225 g caster sugar
  3. Take 125 g margarine
  4. Take 100 ml vegetable oil
  5. Make ready Finely grated zest of 3 lemons
  6. Prepare 4 medium eggs
  7. Get 50 ml hot water
  8. Take 250 g plain flour
  9. Get 2 tsp baking powder
  10. Get 75 g fine oatmeal
  11. Take 30 poppy seeds
  12. Make ready Syrup
  13. Make ready 150 g caster sugar
  14. Prepare 100 ml lemon juice

Decorate with the lemon twists, flaked almonds, and poppy seeds. Great British Baking Show So I decided to combine these two recipes and make an easy torte-style lemon poppy seed drizzle cake - involving nothing more complicated than creaming together butter and sugar, adding eggs and dry ingredients, plus LOTS of lemon, and pouring into a cake tin. Add lemon icing to the finished masterpiece (if you like) and you're done. While the cake is baking, mix the glaze together.

Instructions to make Lemon and Poppy Drizzle Cake:
  1. Line a 20cm square cake tin with baking paper. Beat the sugar with the oil Marge and lemon zest until fluffy. Add the eggs a little at a time and beat well until fully mixed.
  2. Whisk the hot water into the batter until smooth.
  3. Mix the flour baking powder oatmeal and poppy seeds thoroughly and beat this into the cake mixture.
  4. Pour into the cake tin and bake at 180 degrees (160 w/ fan) for 40 to 50 minutes.
  5. Once removed from the oven while the cake is still warm make small holes across the top of the cake using a skewer.
  6. Make the syrup by heating the lemon juice with the sugar and then once dissolved pour over the top of the cake slowly so it soaks through the holes.
  7. Dust with sugar to finish.

Add lemon icing to the finished masterpiece (if you like) and you're done. While the cake is baking, mix the glaze together. As soon as the cake comes out of the oven, pour the glaze over the top, spreading evenly. Bundt cakes have the tendency to be a little dry, so let's use a few eggs for tenderness and buttermilk for a moist texture. Some poppy seeds add a sprinkle of light crunch and let's use lots of fresh lemon zest and juice for flavor.

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