How to Make DF Lemon Cakes

Makes: 12

Ingredients:

Sponge:

6oz DF butter

6oz caster sugar

6oz self raising flour

2 eggs

1 lemon (rind)

2 limes (rind + juice)

1 tbsp lemon juice

Glazing:

1 lemon (juice)

1 lime (juice)

6 tbsp caster sugar

---

Method:

1. Pre-heat the oven to 160 degrees

2. Grease a tin with butter or grease proof paper

3. Put butter and sugar in a large bowl and beat until creamy, pale and soft

4. Beat the eggs lightly then dribble them into the mix and keep beating (if the mix starts to curdle, beat in a bit of flour)

5. Sift the flour over the mix and add the lemon and lime rind. Fold this into the mix with a metal spoon, using large figures of eight

6. Gently mix in the lemon and lime juice

7. Spoon the mix into a tin and bake for 55 - 60 mins

8. Once cooked, prick the cake all over with a fork

9. For glazing, mix the lemon and lime juice with the caster sugar. Pour over hot cake in the tin

10. Leave to cool in the tin for 15 minutes, then leave to cool on a rack.