Vegan lemon cake
- Katie Siddons
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Serves 12
Easy
Prep: 15 mins
Cook: 30 mins
Plus cooling
A star rating of 4.3 out of 5.351 ratingsRate
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Try our luscious vegan lemon drizzle cake. Light and zingy, it also works well if you replace the flour and baking powder with gluten-free alternatives
Freezable
Dairy-free
Egg-free
Vegan
Vegetarian
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Ingredients
Nutrition
Units:
MetricUS
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100ml vegetable oil
plus extra for the tin
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275g self-raising flour
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200g golden caster sugar
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1 tsp baking powder
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1 lemon
zested, 1/2 juiced
For the icing
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150g icing sugar
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½ lemon
juiced
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Nutrition: Per serving
- kcal276
- fat9g
- saturates1g
- carbs47g
- sugars29g
- fibre1g
- protein2g
- salt0.3g
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Method
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step 1
Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Oil a 1lb loaf tin and line it with baking parchment. Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder and lemon zest in a bowl. Add the oil, lemon juice and 170ml cold water, then mix until smooth.
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step 2
Pour the mixture into the tin. Bake for 30 mins or until a skewer comes out clean. Cool in the tin for 10 mins, then remove and transfer the cake to a wire rack to cool fully.
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step 3
For the icing, sieve the icing sugar into a bowl. Mix in just enough lemon juice to make an icing thick enough to pour over the loaf (if you make the icing too thin, it will just run off the cake).
Test Kitchen tips for making a vegan lemon cake:
- Once the batter is smooth, stop mixing. Working flour and liquid further develops gluten, which can make the loaf tougher.
- Get the tin into the oven soon after mixing. The baking powder starts making bubbles when it meets the wet ingredients, and waiting can reduce the cake’s rise.
Try more easy vegan cake ideas from our sister title olivemagazine.com/vegan-cakes.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, January 2018
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