Lemon & elderflower drizzle cake

Today I did a recipe from the 'Cake making' book of Ruth Clemens (buy here). I recommend this book because it is very helpful and give lots of tips. So if you are a beginner you NEED to buy it!!

Ingredients:

Cake 

175g butter

175g caster sugar

Zest of 2 lemons

3 large eggs

160g self-raising flour or 160g plain flour + 11g bicarbonate of soda

Juice of 1 lemon

Drizzle

Juice of 1 lemon

110g caster sugar

2 tbsp elderflower cordial

• Preheat the oven to 160°C (fan)/Gas mark 4. Line the loaf tin with baking paper or a paper liner.
• Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add the lemon zest and mix until evenly combined. Add the eggs a little at a time, beating well after each addition until the mixture is light and fluffy again. 
• Fold in the self-raising flour until the cake mix is even.
• Finally stir through the juice of 1 lemon. Don't worry if the mixture curdles, the acidity from the lemon juice will often do that. 
• Fill the loaf tin with cake mixture. Level the top roughly with the back of a spoon and bake in the oven for 50 minutes. Do check the oven after 35 minutes and if the crust is going very dark cover it with a sheet of foil for the remaining baking time. 
• remove the cake from the oven and mix together the drizzle: lemon juice, elderflower cordial and sugar, stirring well to combine. The sugar will still be granular in the mixture. 
• Keep the cake in the tin and using a skewer prick holes right across and all around the top of the cake-aim to go three quarters of the way throught the cake, not right to the base. Lots of holes are needed for the syrup to soak the cake evenly. 
• Now spoon the drizzle over the cake slowly, allowing it to run down the skewered holes before adding another spoonful. Make sure you evenly cover the entire top of the cake until all the drizzle has been added. Set aside for the cake to cool completely and then remove from the tin and serve.

For me it went dark 15 minutes before the end so check regularly after 35 minutes in the oven

So good!