Lemon Cake

A very simple recipe I have been using for many, many years

What you need

• a rectangular baking form, a fork
• 200g butter/margarine
• 300g plain white flour
• 4 eggs
• 250g sugar
• a pinch of salt
• 1 tablespoon of vanilla sugar. Difficult to get in the UK - but I found it in Waitrose (Baking department)
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder
• 2 lemons
• icing sugar

How you do it

• grease the baking form
• get the juice from the 2 lemons. then grate their skin.
• store the juice in a jar and mix with 2 tablespoons of sugar.
• mix butter (soft), eggs and sugar into one bowl. Whip until creamy.
• add the vanilla sugar and the grated lemon skin.
• add the flour and baking powder until all is well mixed. Add a bit of flour (spoonw-wise) if the dough is still too liquid.
• pre-heat the oven to ca 175-180 degrees.
• pour dough in greased form.
• bake for 45min - 55min. the dough should have risen and only slightly darkened.
• let the cake cool down a bit before removing from the form.
• pinch the top of the cake with a fork. then pour the lemon/sugar juice over it - so that the juice gets into the cake.
• sprinkle with icing sugar.