After Christmas and the lovely event of a fresh new year with a shiny student loan, i decided to splurge my money on two things (well maybe 4...5.. maybe 8):
It took a lot for me to fork out for this kMix but i love it lots!... as a student i can't yet afford a KitchenAid but this beautiful thing will do in the mean time :), a long with the books i also invested in some other bits and pieces, new cake tins, a flan tin... yeah.
Anyway, to test out the books, i thought i'd make something slightly different to what i've done before, something that i've always wanted to make, and that is super damn tasty.
I decided to try out the Lemon Drizzle Loaf recipe from tea with Bea. Unfortunately, i hadn't yet received my kMix so it was still made with the trusty hand mixer.
With the new information and tips i've gathered from these new books, i now had different things to remember to do before i bake i.e. making sure the butter and eggs are room temp., mixing eggs and sugar as soon as they mix etc... So with this recipe, as long as i remembered to zest my lemons and juice them before hand, line my loaf tin, it was pretty simple to follow recipe, as an easy "bung all together and expect beautiful results."
The only thing that went wrong with this for me, was that the loaf tin wasn't quite big enough, so the cake took nearly twice as long to cook, it was a little caught on the outside too. However, the inside of the cake was SOOO MOIST, spongey and lemony. And the extremely sweet drizzle coating helped to lift the slight bitterness of any little burnt bits.
the colour isn't right at all on this picture, apologies. but the cake was really light! ^_^
But besides that, this loaf was perfect with a cup of tea and gone in 2 days! Next time, if someone arrives out of the blue for a cup of tea, i will definitely be whipping this baby out again!
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