Thread: Lemon Drizzle Cake

Part one. Big C has lemons for 69 baht per Kilo as opposed to the usual 165 baht a kilo so I have been stocking up. Having run out of things to do with them, and about 50 sliced up and frozen for for popping into my sun downers, I decided to use a couple of them with a Lemon Drizzle Cake.

Ingredients.

250g caster sugar (Big C call is Quick Disolving Sugar)
200g butter
2/3 medium eggs (3 eggs work better than 2 for a lighter and more risen sponge)
zest and juice of 2 lemons
250g self-raising Flour (Cake Flour in Big C)
100ml milk
100g caster sugar
(for topping, use juice from 2 zested lemons, and add 100g of sugar)

Pot the butter, eggs, sugar and lemon zest in a bowl and beat it like a bastard until it goes white / paler. It might separate due to the acidity of the zest, but don't worry as the flour will bring it together again. Then gently but thoroughly beat in the flour and milk. Pop it into a loaf tin greased and lined, or if like me, I declined the loaf option and went for making individual cup cakes, grease and flour the tin.

This is them in the oven cooking now with 30 minutes to go.



The idea is to cook it / them until the top is golden brown and you get a slight tap when hit with a teaspoon. Real and present danger that they will over flow the cups and be a right old mess, but we will not be defeated by that.

Nice! I do like a bit of lemon cake.

Where did you get the yorkshire pud tin from? I can't find one anywhere.

Originally Posted by pseudolus

Big C has lemons for 69 baht per Kilo

Shall be heading to Big C then!

Yeah that is bloody cheap. I think they're about 69bt each in Villa.

Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

Yeah that is bloody cheap. I think they're about 69bt each in Villa.

It's a shame that you city-slickers depend on your beloved supermarkets to provide you with basic essentials...just saying like.


Mai phen rai.

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

Yeah that is bloody cheap. I think they're about 69bt each in Villa.

It's a shame that you city-slickers depend on your beloved supermarkets to provide you with basic essentials...just saying like.


Mai phen rai.

Point me in the direction of a market that sells lemons and I'll happily avoid the supermarket.

Got the tin in either Tops in Central Ladprao or Villa Market in the mega cinema place at the top of Ratchada rd.

I really want a lemon tree.

Originally Posted by pseudolus

I really want a lemon tree.

Rural Surin's got one!

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

Yeah that is bloody cheap. I think they're about 69bt each in Villa.

It's a shame that you city-slickers depend on your beloved supermarkets to provide you with basic essentials...just saying like.


Mai phen rai.

Why make a comment like this RS? If you have a better option, then why don't you post that instead?

Part 2.

So when they are done, if they are just for you, use a fork, or for guests, a toothpick, and prick the top of each cake multiple times. Mix the 100g sugar with the juice of the two lemons and liberally dribble this onto the cakes. The result is;



Then eat.



The lemon and sugar keeps the acidity high so they are good to keep for about a week. The juice keeps them very moist. A winner.

Look good mate. I might give that a go this week after a trip to Big C

An absolute piss of piss to make - 10 mins to prep and that is all. When I have a proper kitchen again soon, there will be a lot of this stuff coming including my patented boiled fruit cake which is a master class in light moist fruit cake

Luckily the I have an agreement with the other half. I cook - she washes up.

Originally Posted by pseudolus

Luckily the I have an agreement with the other half. I cook - she washes up.

Haha, me too

My daughter and I always chose delia's LDC.



http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/c...ayer-cake.html

Originally Posted by OhOh

My daughter and I always chose delia's LDC.



Iced Lemon Curd Layer Cake - English - Recipes - from Delia Online

Delias LDC??

^^ I have a smilar agreement with my missus, a bit different but basically the same.
I cook and I wash up.

I made sure that all my kids, sons and daughters, could cook at least one main course, one dessert and one cake.

No excuse of not being able to feed themselves.

I think its great nowadays how some guys can bake and not be called raving benders.

I mean,Pseudolus jumping on the BTS, with his new baking tin ,nis similar in a way to the Gay pride activists, with their Up the bum no harm done t shirts.

Nicee cakes though mate, can i have one

...but these cakes look nourishing ,whilst all that the Gay Shame bum banditry mob ever gave the world was AIDS , so the analogy doesn't really hold ,
although nothing looks gayer than a man stood over a barbecue breathing toxic fumes in and turning over a few bits of meat with a smug look on his face , like he is the master of some secret art .

Pseudolus's LD cakes look great
though I would recommend throwing caution to the winds and burning the bastards a little more.

also what oven temp ?

The one above the one on the bottom right looks ok.

Looking at that baking tray i fancy a game of connect four and hide the sausage for some strange reason ?

Originally Posted by Dillinger

I think its great nowadays how some guys can bake and not be called raving benders.

So you gonna come out the cupboard and put your pinny on then mate ?

Ive never owned an oven here in Asia.

Im gonna buy one soon and show all of you on here my spotted dick.

Thats how confident i am in my sexuality.

My 2 main culinary baked specialities though, are cheese straws and flapjacks

Originally Posted by OhOh

My daughter and I always chose delia's LDC.



Iced Lemon Curd Layer Cake - English - Recipes - from Delia Online

That's not a lemon drizzle cake. It's a iced lemon curd cake. Looks nice although I can not understand why it is orange coloured.

Originally Posted by Dillinger

I think its great nowadays how some guys can bake and not be called raving benders.

I mean,Pseudolus jumping on the BTS, with his new baking tin ,nis similar in a way to the Gay pride activists, with their Up the bum no harm done t shirts.

Nicee cakes though mate, can i have one

Well, I actually jumped into my car, with my "up the bum, no harm done" t-shirt on. No shame in men being able to cook. The best chefs in the world are men. Most chefs in the world are men. Besides, I would have thought a swordsman like you would forever be trying to slam the lamb up the ring piece of your latest squeeze to squeals of mai ow, mai ow, mai chop, jep mak.

Originally Posted by nigelandjan

Well done soupdeloops thanks for the recipe ,, always good to see someone having a bake off on here

As a fellow baker can I give you a little tip ? you do not " beat " flour in mate , it should only ever be folded in gently , the reason I have mentioned it is the cake you have cut open looks a tad heavy inside ? if it is then this is because the flour was beaten in ok ?

Not critising mate , just offering a tip khao jai mai ?

Fair comment, and to be honest I fold in the flour - don't know why I wrote beat lol. Actually the reason is that I used 3 large eggs and not 3 medium eggs hence it being a little heavy. Bloody nice though, and just the job with a cup of coffee