{"id":1921,"slug":"lemon-drizzle-cake","title":"Lemon Drizzle Cake","description":"Lemon drizzle cake is a simple butter cake flavored with lemon zest and juice, and topped with a lemony icing.","ingredients_raw":["280 g (9.9 oz/2¼ sticks) unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing","280 g (9.9 oz/1¼ cups) superfine sugar","5 standard eggs","Zest and juice of 1 lemon","300 g (11 oz/2¼ cups) self-raising flour","1½ teaspoons baking powder","150 g (5.3 oz/1¼ cups) powdered sugar","Juice of ½ lemon"],"ingredients_norm":["unsalted butter","superfine sugar","standard egg","zest and juice of lemon","self raising flour","baking powder","powdered sugar","juice of lemon"],"steps":["Preheat the oven to 190 C. Grease and line a 20 cm square cake tin.","Beat the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl, until soft and fluffy.","Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then lemon juice and zest.","Fold the flour and baking powder into the mixture.","Spoon the mixture into the cake tin.","Bake for 25 minutes until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.","Transfer the cake to a wire rack and leave it to cool.","Mix the icing sugar and lemon juice in a bowl until it is thick enough to coat the back of spoon.","Drizzle the icing over the cake.","Enjoy!"],"categories":["Cake recipes","Recipes for cake","Recipes for dessert","Recipes using butter","Recipes using lemon juice","Recipes using egg","Recipes using baking powder","Recipes using superfine sugar","Recipes using powdered sugar","Recipes using self-raising flour","Recipes using lemon zest"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":40,"servings":"16","yield_text":null,"difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Lemon_Drizzle_Cake","source_ref":"4517059","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Lemon_Drizzle_Cake&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"6bcb42ea908c22781138380de8cb699379a08e06bcba65092e23c357dee1e723","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:07Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:31Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/lemon-drizzle-cake"}