Lemon Dirzzle cake - No baking powder - Yay or Nay? (Everything else is in mixing bowl so I need answers ASAP please)

[SlightlyMadStirrup]

I have supreme S/R flour.

Should work without baking powder shouldn't it?

have you got these ingredients?

• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
• 1 teaspoon corn starch (optional)

Nope.

Ok sorry tht was 'make your own' baking powder

Never made drizzel cake so I don't know....sorry

I know that I wouldn't need the Baking powder if I beat by hand....but as I stick LDC in whizzer - I thought the baking powder was for extra bounce - how much does it actually do?

I suppose I could get out the elbow grease?

I'm sorry ....I don't know & I can't remember my cooking lessons

I think that folding in the flour keeps the 'rise' in a cake....but I'm not sure

exactly.....along with creaming the sugar and butter which incorperates air iteh first instance.

I have done an all in one at school w/o baking powder and it worked...I think I am going to risk it. Wish me luck

Eek a late 'good luck'

It is rising...but looking strange (looks very matt on top rather than glossy). I think I made the mistake of letting the DC measure all of the ingrediants in the interest of education....I think there may be too much flour

Didn't know you had to cream the butter and sugar. Recipe says just stick all ingredients in a bowl and mix.

I have to say I dread making it coz my arm nearly falls off stirring and stirring, trying to get the butter lumps out til I can't stand it any more and just bake it lumpy.

Ideally:
If you have no baking powder, cream butter and sugar first, then add beaten eggs slowly plus a little flour to stop mixture curdling. Then fold in SR flour at end.
If you have got baking powder - throw the lot in together in one bowl and beat.

Starlight - the point is that if you stick it in a whizzer "all in one" you need to add baking powder to get a good rise. If you want to cream the butter and sugar, fold in teh flour and do all that malarky you don't need to add baking powder as the elbow grease adds the air.

However - I can confirm that baking powder is not necessary - even in the whizzer. My cake has risen about 3" in the middle!

Yay to SMS's cake.

Still don't get how to get the lumps out of the cold hard butter by hand, but hey, my lumpy cakes taste GOOD!

you use marge which has been at room temp.

I have just weighed the bag of flour.

They have put over 16oz of flour in (should have been 12oz!).....I think they misread the 1lb on the scales for 11......I think I will have to do a taste test

LOL!

Okay, I've got as far as mixing marge with butter, and caster with granulated (don't have enough of any of the ingredients) and minused a third coz I think my loaf (and only) tin won't take the quantities listed. Flour and baking powder and milk okay (although I had to use a teensy bit of skimmed)

I put in 3 eggs because I can't do a 1/3 of 4 exactly.

Now, - I've just discovered that my lemons have been skinned (don't ask). What to do? Can I squirt some lemon juice into the cake or will it make it curdle or something? - or shall I just do without and add plenty of 'drizzle' at the end?

You've all got a while, - coz I'm still trying to get the damn lumps out and may be for some time yet, - but please......help!

Have you got a whizzer? Or are you doing it by hand?

Dunno about lemon juice....but I can google for you. TBH most of the flavour is in the zest

No, just a plastic bowl and a wooden spoon!

Googling is inconclusive...I think a small amount will be OK but I think with juice you will get more flavour in with a heavy drizzling.

Not sure which type of drizzle you do (I do a glaze rather than a white icing). I would drizzle with lots of warm lemon juice as soon as it comes out of oven (so the sponge soaks up the lemon juice)...then put icing on top

Do I drizzle it still in the tin then? (not doing icing)

(thanks everyone - even if it goes horribly wrong my DH will be so grateful he has a cake he'll overlook the fact that it is crumbled and curdled - although he might worry about me because we were watching Stepford Wives last night)

I take out of tine --> rack over a baking tray then drizzle