Lemon Cake With Lemon Flavored Glaze

Ingredients

Cake

Plain Flour/ Maida: 1 cup

Baking Powder: ¾ tsp

Lemon Essence: 1tsp

Sunflower Oil/ any refined oil: ½ cup

Powdered Sugar: ¾ cup

Lemon Juice: 4tbsp or of 2lemon

Eggs: 2                            

Salt: pinch

For Glaze:

Sugar Powdered: ½ cup

Lemon Juice: 2tbsp

Water: needed

Method Of Preparation

Cake

Sift all the dry ingredients together.

In a separate bowl add oil and sugar. Beat it.

Now add the eggs and beat again well.

Add the lemon juice together with the essence.

Now add flour little by little and mix well.

Add the batter to the cake tray which is lined with butter paper.

Preheat the oven and bake at 160 deg C to about 35-45 minutes or till a tooth pick inserted comes out clean.

Glaze

Add powdered sugar to a cup and add lemon juice to it.

Then add 1 or 2tbsp water to it. (the consistency is not too runny or too thick)

Before the cake is cooled add the glaze over it and spread all over on the top of the cake.

Wait for an hour or till the glaze sets.

Cut the cake and serve.