Blueberry & Lemon Drizzle Cake
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Recipe type: desserts
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Serves: 12
 
Ingredients
  • 200g self raising flour
  • 200g unsalted butter
  • 200g caster sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • ½ punnet of blueberries (approx 50g)
  • zest of 1 lemon
  • juice of 1 lemon
  • 75g caster sugar
Instructions
  1. Pre heat the oven to 180oC / 160oC (fan)
  2. Grease and line an 8 inch cake tin
  3. Cream together the butter and sugar until soft and pale
  4. Add the eggs, lemon zest and 1 spoonful of the flour and beat together for a couple of minutes
  5. Then fold in the flour until just combined
  6. Add the blueberries and gently stir through
  7. Pour into your prepared cake tin and cook in the oven for apporox 25 minutes until cooked right through
  8. A couple of minutes before cooking time has ended, place the lemon juice and sugar in a saucepan and heat gently until the sugar has dissolved and stir
  9. As soon as your cake is cooked, make lots of holes all over the top with a sharp knife and pour over the lemon and sugar sauce
  10. Leave to cool completely before removing from your tin
  11. Serve when cold - deeeeeelicious!
Recipe by Mummy Mishaps at http://www.mummymishaps.co.uk/2014/03/blueberry-lemon-drizzle-cake.html