Lemons – this zingy, sour fruit is my most loved flavors when it comes to cooking and baking. This versatile fruit is used to bring a tangy flavor and bright aroma in baking to sauce making to meat and vegetable cookery. So, when life give you lemons, don’t just make lemonade. Here’s an easy lemon cake recipe that will surely tickle your taste buds!

Ingredients:

125g butter
185g self-raising flour
100g castor sugar
2 large eggs
2 tablespoons plain yogurt or 4 tablespoon of milk
2 lemons, rind grated

Syrup

4 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
4 rounded tablespoons icing sugar

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease and flour a 9 by 2-inch round cake pan or loaf tin.
2. Cream butter and sugar and beat in eggs.
3. Add sifted flour, lemon rind and yogurt and mix well.
4. Pour into tin and smooth top.
5. Bake for 25 – 30 minutes. (If using loaf tin, bake for 35 – 40 minutes)

Syrup:

Mix lemon juice and icing sugar.
After removing cake from over, prick the top with a metal skewer.
Pour over the lemon juice while cake is still hot.
Leave to cool before removing the tin.