Frosted Lemon Cake

Melt in your mouth cakey goodness!!! I used the basic Madeira mixture for this one too, it's so easy to make, it's unbelievable. After a week in Sligo, I'm totally hooked on baking!!!

ALl you need is:

150 g Self Raising Flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
100 g Caster Sugar
100 g Margarine
2 free range eggs
Zest of one lemon
Juice of one lemon
Teaspoon natural vanilla essence
Icing
115 g Icing Sugar
Juice of half a lemon

• Grease a cake tin

• Cream the margarine and sugar together

• Gradually add in the two beaten eggs, stirring after each addition

• (if curding occurs, add in a little flour)

• Stir in the zest of one lemon

• Sieve in the flour and baking powder

• Add in the juice of one lemon

• Fold the mixture into itself, ensure it is evenly mixed through

• At the end, I added a little extra sugar, about 2 teaspoons, just to make sure it didn't go bitter with all the lemon!!

• Pour into greased cake tin....I used cooking spray to grease the tin and also it's not really a tin, it's the rubber baking "tin" thingy from Dunnes, I love it!!!

• Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 35 minutes 

• To make the icing

• sift the icing sugar and add in the juice of half a lemon, slowly add in the juice until you get a nice thicky yet drizzly consistency

• Garnish with some lemon zest 

• Sit back, relax and enjoy it with a cup of green tea :)