That lemon drizzle cake everyone keeps banging on about...

[Wintersun]

..made it today for Fathers day to see what all the fuss was about.
The fathers (and mothers) were very impressed!
Thanks Marslady!

right, let's be having it please

Anyone got it handy?

I NEED that recipe please please please please please!!!!!!

you need to throw some green & black's chocolate chunks into lemon drizzle mixture on the last stir

then you get sunken chocolate in the lemon drizzle

fab!

Twiglett - that's food PORN!!!

Not sure if this is the one but I made this for DS birthday cake and it was lovely! mmm

hmmmm... chocolate in a lemon drizzle cake? sounds a little bizarre. i'm something of a lemon drizzle purist methinks.

convince me.

MN Official Lemon Drizzle Cake

yeah yeah stop W*&ing over it and give me the recipe please!

Thanks for the link but I fancy the official MNMarslady one

Thanks

its from the Green & Black's cookbook

I surely don't need to convince you tutter

chocolate and lemon? excellent combination

Lemon Drizzle Traybake a la Mars Lady

4 eggs
9oz (250g) soft marg
9oz (250g)caster sugar
12oz (350g)s/r flour
3 level tsps baking powder
6 tbsp milk
grated rind of 2 lemons.

Mix all ingredients. Put in lined tin. Bake (about 30-40mins) I think I do it at about 180.

Icing:
Lemon juice (from 2 lemons)
12oz (350g) icing sugar sieved

Warm lemon juice, mix icing sugar in. Prick warm cake and drizzle!

ooooooh once second late with my post

thanks

bloody hell those quantities would make 2 cakes easily .. are you sure you shouldn't halve it?

traybake? you mean you do a flat square one? I do it in a loaf tin

hmmmmm

that's what I thought
I'm going to halve it

and I will be using lemons from the tree in the garden

was looking for this famous recipe. I think I'm turning into a proper housewive since coming to Oz. All I do is bake with DD! I too will be able to use my own lemons....

Green & Blacks version

125g (4.5oz) unsalted butter
125g caster sugar
2 lage eggs
150g (5 oz) sr flour
1 tsp baking powder
grated rind 1 large lemon
1 tbsp milk
3 oz dark chocolate

Drizzle
50g (2 oz) golden granulated sugar
juice of 1 lemon

Whisk butter, sugar, eggs, flour, baking powder and lemon rind for 2 mins. Whisk in milk to make soft dropping consistency. Stir in chocolate

Put in lined tin, smooth surface and bake at 180 for 40 mins

stir sugar into lemon juice and pour over cake in tin

leave cake to cool on wire rack (but in paper)

can we please have the recipe for the brownies now

Suzy how did the halving turn out? My attempts always fail miserably if I halve/double or otherwise mess about with quantities, but I want to have a crack at this one.
What size tray or loaf tin?
at lemon tree

very, very nice if I say so myself
But I used butter as margarine of any description is, of course, the Devil's Work.
I used a 6 inch round spring form tin.

I LOVE lemon drizzle - will attempt to make this later - although my baking experiences in the US have mainly been miserable failures ( i think the four is different)

flour is different here and all, Mrs S

Ther's nothing like a McDougall's bag of SRF [sigh]

I'm not hog-whimpering wild about that G&B version, I have to say.

Hoxtonchick's partner's mum has a fabulous lemon drizzle cake too, which has made me almost as many friends as the Wongster's brownies.

can i use butter in place of marg, does anyone know?

i don't do marg

ah, come on.

otherwise i am going to just do it.

Not even all-natural non-hydrogenated marge?