A Bread Styled ~ Lemon Cake

Lemon flavor always stands out from the very usuals. This is an eggless lemon cake fermented with yeast. Hence, this can be called as a Lemon Bread cake...

Ingredients :

— All purpose flour / Maida - 1 ⅓ cup

— Sugar - 1/2 cup + 3tbsps

— Lemon Juice - 4 tbsps

— Lemon Zest - 1tsp (grated lemon peel)

— Instant Yeast - 1/2 tsp

— Milk - 1 ¼ cup (room temperature)

— Any light Oil - 1/4 cup

Icing

— Icing Sugar - 1/2 cup

— Lemon juice

Recipe :

1. Mix all purpose flour / maida, sugar, lemon zest and yeast together.

2. Add oil, milk and lemon juice. Mix slowly to form a thick batter.

3. Now put a cling sheet around the bowl and let this rest for 1-2 hrs. Wait until the batter doubles its volume.

4. After 1-2 hrs you will see a slight rise in the dough.

**This batter will not raise like the usual bread dough we mix with yeast.

5. Now grease your cake tin and pour in the batter. Let this sit for 10-15mins again.

6. Bake this in a pre-heated oven at 350°C for 45-50mins or till the cake is completely done.

Tooth pick or knife should come clean when inserted.

7. De-mould when half cooled and squeeze lemon juice on top of it.This gives a very intense lemon flavor to the cake.

This add a dashful of extra lemonous flavor to the cake.

8. Now mix icing sugar and lemon juice together and pour over the cake.

Enjoy a new style of Lemon cake...

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