Oh my, I've just made that lemon drizzle traybake for the first time....

[petunia]

...and it's gooood! DD's had 4 squares of it already! Can I freeze it OK?

Yes, it freezes beautifully. Although probably best before icing it.

you can freeze it?????!!!!!!!!

Excellent news that it freezes well. Had to make double quantity to use up some lemons, so have made loads!

Can someone give me a link to the recipe please?

Link, please...

I'd like to have the recipe too!

Marsy's Famous Lemon Drizzle Cake

INGREDIENTS
9 oz sugar
9 oz butter
12 oz self-rising flour
4 eggs
3 t baking powder
6 Tbsp milk
grated rind from 2 lemons
juice from these lemons separately

METHOD

Preheat oven to 325 degrees/Gas Mark 3/170C/ Mix all the ingredients together in the mixer except for lemon juice. Bake in 9 X 11 (or 13) baking dish. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes until knife comes out clean. While the cake is baking, squeeze the juice from the lemons and heat for 20 seconds or so in the microwave. Set at least one tablespoon aside to drizzle into the cake when it comes out of the oven. Take the balance of the warm lemon juice and add icing sugar (confectioners sugar) to consistency you like. As soon as you take the cake from the oven, prick cake with fork and pour over the reserved warm lemon juice. Next, spread the icing over the cake to finish it off.

Thanks, Gillian!

Thankyou, thankyou thankyou, I wanted to try this cake and this looks a great easy recipe.

off to shops to get the ingredients

oh! i've been baking it in too hot an oven! oh well. it still works.

Since I first made this, we've tried the version in the Green and Blacks cookbook that has chocolate chunks in it. DD1 says she wants it for her birthday cake next month! And when I make it for lunchboxes etc, I have to make triple quantity in a big roasting tin because DDs love it so much! They don't like the lemon drizzle icing though so I have to leave it plain.

I've done it today for Fathers Day and it's been a bit of a disaster... (though DH still gobbled it up - but then he does like almost any cake). Maybe it's because the oven wasn't hot enough (I'm still getting used to the range-size single oven we've inherited from the previous owners, whose main pastime - judging by the size of it and the smell when we first turned it on - must have been giant-hog-roasting) or because I did smth wrong (wasn't sure whether it was 3 tsp or 3tbsp baking powder from that recipe... and do you need to melt the butter before mixing it?) but it didn't rise properly, so there was a big dip in the middle, which turned into a big puddle of icing because I'd only drizzled just over 1 tbsp of lemon juice onto the cake and not got enough icing sugar to mix with the rest of the juice... Marslady, can you advise?

3tsp baking powder.

Now... is the oven hot enough? Are you peeping at it? Is the tray/baking dish too big?

It freezes beautifully and if after a couple of days (lol... like there's any left) it doesn't seem quite as lovely, pop it in the oven for a few mins. Yum!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well done to those who've finally made it. You can consider yourselves true MNers now!

snurk!!!!!!!!!!

can anyone tell me what size tray i should be using??

What size is the tray you make your sunday roast in?

oh, a friend of mine made that lemon drizzle cake from your recipe and OMG it was the best i have ever tasted......... i really must have a go at making it myself now !!

Mais oui!

Flumpy-I think a loaf tin is the usual tin, but I've also used a Swiss roll type tin. I only used my roasting tin because I had to make triple quantity. Single quantity just wouldn't last with DDs!
I think I'm going to have to do LDC for DD1's school summer fair in a few weeks time!

might I ask what quantity you are currently using?

My quantities (unless halved and halved again) never fit in a loaf tin!

The Green and Blacks cookbook version is really small. 4 1/2oz butter and caster sugar, 2 eggs, 5oz s.r flour, 1tsp baking powder, rind of 1 large lemon and 3oz dark chocolate. Tin is a 5x7in/ 12x19cm loaf tin.

Ah well as long as it's the Green and Black's recipe that's okay. If it's my recipe .................. lol

I've just measured my roasting tin- 35x27cm. It's what I put my Christmas turkey in! These cakes just get bigger and bigger!

Don't you just love cake!

MarsLady, why aren't you in the VSC comp?