Hello everyone today I am showing you how to make the most fantastic gorgeous lemon
drizzle cake hello everyone it is becky here and it is Tuesday which is a becky bakes day
barry put up a new schedule at the weekend so Tuesdays are going to be my day for baking
Thursday will be his day for cooking and Sunday will be the funday so today this lemon drizzle
cake is going to taste so good it is one of my favourites and the girls love it too it
is a personal fave of mine I cannot wait for this, I am feeling quite professional today
not sure if you can hear it I have this microphone you can probably hear it, that is your shoulder
I like the little pack on my back too I feel like a pro, but yeah lets get on with it this
is how you do it.
First step we are going to do is grease and line the loaf tin we have here so I have just
got a bit of butter on a butter wrapper and am going to grease it all around the sides
and bottom, so after greasing with my butter I put the greaseproof paper in and I kind
of had to cut around the edges a bit to make it all fit in, so I am just bringing the ingredients
over remember if you guys want to give this a go you can find the detailed method and
quantities of ingredients on the my virgin kitchen website and also in future if you
want to check out the videos before anyone else on youtube you can head over to my virgin
kitchen .com and you will see the video there first, first step we add in the flour, followed
by the caster sugar, baking powder, in goes our butter this butter is room temperature
so nice and soft we can beat it together easy, now add in the eggs one at a time, oh third
and final egg and a massive piece of shell went in too oh dear, yep no more shell all
gone.
Final ingredient and probably the most important we are going to zest a lemon and squeeze in
lemon juice too I am using a whole lemon but if you are not a fan of lemon which if you
are making a lemon drizzle cake you probably are not sure why you would make one if you
are not a fan of lemon but you could use just half the lemon and not worry about using the
other half or lemon juice now we slice the lemon in half and squeeze the lemon juice
into the cake right you can do the trick if you like put the hand under and catch the
pips there we go we do not want those in the cake, now all our ingredients are in the bowl
we beat together so we have a nice creamy mixture make sure your mixture is nice and
combined instead of using a spatula you may want to use a hand mixer as it is not as easy
as I thought to cream together, I do not know why I am using a spatula today I guess because
on my last video I used it to show you anyone can do it if you do not have a hand mixer
but it is tough and hard work I would recommend investing in a hand mixer if you have not
got one already I am really happy with that it is really smooth and combined now it is
time to get it in the tin, in the batter goes, to the loaf tin, just want to make sure we
scoop all the mixture out and do not leave any batter behind, make sure you scoop every
bit out then just level off, in it goes even the batter smells good this cake is going
to be amazing.
It is going in the oven for 35 minutes you want to make sure the sides are coming slightly
away from the tin and when you put a cocktail stick in the middle it comes out clean.
Look at this it has come out the oven and smelling amazing and smelling good too, I
think boston can smell it too he is down there and amy well she is not interested and fast
asleep while we make our icing we leave our cake in the tin and all we need is the juice
of one lemon and our sugar and we are just going to squeeze the juice into the sugar
and mix together I got one lemon sliced in half squeeze that into the sugar oh gosh it
is going everywhere, I am sure you have some gadget somewhere that makes this easier yeah
there is probably one in the gadget box ah I have a cut on my finger ah that is not funny
it stings, I do not recommend catching lemon juice when you have a cut on your hand give
it a good mix together until you have a shiny glaze this is going to stick to the cake look
at that, my cake is ready and my glaze is ready I cannot wait to get this onto the cake
now at the minute I know poke cakes poke cakes that sounds weird poke ok I have never heard
of that well poke cakes are really popular at the moment all it is poking a bamboo skewer
through the cake and pushing a little icing and the sponge soaks up all the icing and
makes it really moist and the flavour is going to be amazing but all I am going to do today
is pour the glaze over the top of the cake, all that is left to do now is transfer the
cake onto a wire rack and oh my goodness it is looking amazing I cannot wait to try this,
just need to cut some slices out now.
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Chloe has lost her appetite so she is sat with amy I have eaten enough food so I am
leaving it up to these two.
Ready you go first, that is really good, amazing, remember if you give this a go send us your
pictures we love to see your attempts of this but for now that is it and we will see you
next time, bye!