How to incorporate raspberries in a lemon drizzle?

[MorrisZapp]

I'm no great cook but I can bash out a lemon drizzle loaf pretty well, I use Nigellas recipe.

Got a colleagues birthday coming up and wanted to try making the driz cake a bit more exciting, ideally with raspberries.

How would I do this? Mash them up and put them in the icing syrup? Any ideas or experiences welcome.

Toss them in a bit of the flour and just drop them into the cake mix as you dollop it into the tin.

I had a gluten free lemon drizzle loaf cake with blueberries yesterday at a summer fair. Looked like they'd done a standard Madeira style cake, so quite dense and then put the blueberries onto the top of the mixture once it was in the pan, possibly part way through cooking at they were still near to the top. It was delicious.

If you google lemon raspberry cake there are a number of recipes. Even if you don’t want to follow any exactly it might be good to have a look at them to get an idea of how adding raspberries to the mixture might change the bake time/ quantities of dry ingredients etc.

As pps have said, coat in flour and add to your batter, or, you could make a raspberry drizzle rather than lemon, drizzle, so mash the raspberries to a liquid pulp, strain them as to the icing mix and pour? Essentially a lemon cake with raspberry drizzle.

Best cake ever BTW!!

You’ve made me want to eat cake now 😋

I tend to put freeze dried raspberries on top of my icing but a quick google shows that most people put raspberries in the cake and also decorate with them.

This bundt cake looks a bit delicious though, with raspberry icing, could maybe adapt slightly? iambaker.net/raspberry-lemon-bundt-cake/

Brilliant, raspberry syrup the way to go!

Can I ask why you coat the raspberries in flour?

Stop them sinking through the batter to the bottom. You do it with any fruit.

Coating the fruit in flour stops it sinking, so you get a more even distribution.

Thank you. I might try it.

Are freeze dried raspberries a thing? They're lovely in Special K but I didn't think you could buy them?

@MorrisZapp Sainsbury's do dried raspberries.

I usually freeze raspberries and then break them up into smaller pieces while they're frozen, then add to the cake batter. The smaller pieces don't usually sink to the bottom 😊

I've baked them into lemon cake, works great