Impress your friends and family for afternoon tea with this delicious, easy lemon drizzle loaf cake recipe.

All you need is a loaf tin and you can make this impressive but simple cake.

This recipe is for a 2lb loaf tin. This impressive loaf cake is in fact a real showstopper your friends and family will be very impressed with. In addition, you can use any of the Sugar and Crumbs Natural Flavoured Icing Sugars if you don’t have Lemon Drizzle.  This recipe is delicious using Key Lime and Orange Zest as alternatives. Change the fruit according to the flavour you have chosen! Try to combine them too. If you would like to check our full range of Natural Flavoured Icing Sugars and Cocoa Powders click here. Check more recipes out here.

Ingredients

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 180º C, 350 F, Gas mark 4. 2. Beat together in a large mixing bowl the eggs, flour, Sugar and Crumbs Lemon Drizzle Flavoured  Icing Sugar, butter, and baking powder until smooth and turn into the prepared tin. 3. Bake in the oven for about 35-45 minutes or until golden brown, shrinking away from the sides of the tin and springy to the touch.

How to make the drizzle topping

4. Place the granulated sugar or caster sugar into a bowl. Add the Sugar and Crumbs Natural Flavoured Icing Sugar then a couple of tablespoons of water or the juice of the lemon (orange or lime depending on which one you making). Mix in until all are incorporated. 5. Fork the cake all over while still warm in the loaf pan. Pour over the mixture and leave to set. This way you get everything, if you pop it onto a rack it will all drizzle off the sides.

Lemon Drizzle Loaf Cake Tutorial