Mini lemon drizzle cakes
Spoil your taste buds this with some scrumptious mini lemon drizzle cakes, a little bake with a big taste.
Ingredients
- 250g pack of butter (softened)
- 400g caster sugar
- 3 eggs, (lightly beaten)
- 250g self-raising flour
- Juice of 3 lemons
For the drizzle icing topping
- 30g granulated sugar
- Juice 1 lemon
- Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Line a muffin tin with 12 muffin cases.
- With an electric whisk, whisk the butter, 250g of the sugar, eggs, flour, zest of 2 lemons and juice from 1 lemon until just combined – don’t over-whisk. Fill the cases two thirds full, then bake on a middle shelf for 30 mins, until a skewer poked in comes out clean.
- Cool for 10 mins, then transfer cakes to a cooling rack on a tray and poke each a few times with a skewer.
- Pour remaining lemon juice over remaining 150g sugar and zest 1 lemon, and immediately spoon over the cakes. Leave to cool.
- Mix the icing sugar & lemon juice with just enough water to give a runny, but not watery, icing. Then top and drizzle over the individual lemon cakes. Leave to set.
*You can then add and top whatever decoration you like, we went for fresh blueberries and chocolate drops.
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