Baking
Lemon Syrup Cake
04
Jun
Jun
Lemon flavoured cakes and desserts are very popular, the fresh zingy flavour is beautiful anytime of day and this Lemon Syrup Cake recipe is so easy it is made in one bowl so there is also less clean up. Donna Hay shared this recipe a while back in a Sunday magazine, it is delicious has a light texture and is perfect for afternoon tea or served warm as a dessert.
It can easily be made dairy free by replacing the Greek yoghurt with coconut yoghurt and gluten free by replacing the regular flour with gluten free flour and almond meal/flour.
Lemon Syrup Cake
Lemon cake with lemon syrup topping
Ingredients
- 2 Eggs
- 3/4 Cup Vegetable Oil
- 1 Lemon, finely grated rind
- 1/4 Cup Lemon juice
- 1 Cup Greek yoghurt
- 1 3/4 Cup Castor sugar
- 2 Cups Self Raising Flour
Lemon Syrup Icing
- 1/3 Cup White Sugar
- 1/3 Cup Lemon Juice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 160C
- In a large bowl place the oil, eggs, lemon zest, sugar, yoghurt and lemon juice, whisk to combine.
- Sift in the flour and stir until smooth.
- Pour into a well greased large bundt tin or ring tin. (I use a silicone mould which doesn't need greasing)
- Bake for 20 minutes, reduce temperature to 150C and cook a further 30-40 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the cake comes out clean.
- Remove cake from oven and leave cake in tin to cool for 15 minutes.
- Combine extra sugar and lemon juice in a small bowl or jug.
- Remove cake from the tin and put onto a cake plate.
- While the cake is still hot spoon over the the sugar and juice mixture.
- Serve with thick cream.
Notes
Replacing the regular flour with equal parts gluten free flour and almond meal/flour works well and replacing yoghurt with coconut yoghurt easily makes this cake gluten and dairy free.
You could make the cake with any citrus or a mixture if you like, lime, orange, mandarin etc.
This cake is delicious served with a dollop of lemon curd and thick cream.
Absolutely delicious. It’s like a moist lemon sponge and perfect with lemon drizzle and cream as suggested by Wendy. Thank you for your wonderful recipe.
Thanks Georgia I’m glad you enjoyed the cake