Enter the best lemon loaf cake recipe ever. This is LEMON LOVE right here you guys. It is one of those cakes where you say oh-my-soul after every mouthful. It has just the right amount of lemon flavour (juice and zest of one lemon), and it is soft and moist. Oh and the method…that is where it gets a little tricky. You have to add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix for 2 minutes. Tough hay!
I have never been the most confident baker so when I do make something that stands out…that illicits an oh-my-soul response after every mouthful, you guys will most definitely know all about it.
The original recipe required massaging the zest with the sugar to release the oils into the sugar. Whaaat? Um no. That is where I look at a recipe and think, surely we can simplify this and leave the massage out and SURELY it will taste kind of the same?? So I did, and the flavour still smacks of lovely-lemony-love (try say that fast 10 times). No massage needed.
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