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  • 225g Butter (salted) - softened
  • 225g Golden Caster Sugar
  • 225g Self-raising Flour
  • 4 eggs
  • Grated zest of 1 1/2 Lime

For the Drizzle:

  • Grated Zest of 1 1/2 Lime
  • 85g Golden Caster Sugar
  • 6 tbsp of Lime juice
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    Method

    • step 1

      Preheat the oven to 180C or 160C/fan. Line tin with greaseproof paper and set aside.
    • step 2

      Mix the butter with sugar until creamy and slightly pale. Add the grated lime zest and eggs, one at a time and mix well.
    • step 3

      Stir in the flour and mix well. Pour mixture into tin and cook for 45 - 50 minutes.
    • step 4

      Heat sugar, lime juice and zest in moderate heat (do not boil)
    • step 5

      Remove cake from oven. Prick the cake with a skewer and pour the drizzle mixture onto cake. Leave cake to cool and serve.
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    A star rating of 4.5 out of 5.9 ratings

    Porri

    This is lovely. There are no tin measurements and the original author hasn't responded. I used a 28 cm x 19cm tin because from the photo it looks like a tray bake.

    smith.nigeluvtDuq_U

    question

    What size of tin is this recipe designed for? The illustration looks like a square cut from a traybake...

    A-J4

    A star rating of 5 out of 5.

    This is lovely and I made it as a loaf. I did adjust the recipe as I never find lemon drizzle cakes lemony enough. I put the zest of 3 limes and the juice of 2 limes into the mixture - the rest of the cake mixture I kept exactly the same. For the drizzle I did the zest of two limes and the juice of…

    Laura232

    I am following your advice with the number of limes etc . It’s already now to go in the oven!

    cnaughton

    A star rating of 5 out of 5.

    Served this with Margarita Ice Cream - fabulous!

    recipeporn

    question

    What size tin does it need please

    Laura232

    I am using a loaf tin.

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