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Lemon Vanilla Cake


  • Author: Caroline Hastings-Brown
  • Total Time: 1 hour 5 minutes

Ingredients

Scale

Cake

  • 175 ml plain yoghurt
  • 175 ml sunflower oil
  • 350 ml sugar
  • 525 ml self-raising flour
  • 3 extra large eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • Pinch of salt

Icing

  • Zest of 1 lemon
  • 1 Tbsp lemon Juice
  • 175g margarine / butter, cut into small blocks
  • 350g icing sugar
  • 3 Tbsp boiling water
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
 
 
 

Instructions

Cake
  1. Empty yoghurt into mixing bowl.
  2. Add rest of ingredients and mix with beater. (use the empty yoghurt tub to measure the oil, sugar and flour.)
  3. Pour into greased large ring tin.
  4. Bake at 180°C for 35-40 minutes. Allow to cool and then turn out.
Icing
  1. Place the margarine in a mixing bowl and beat until soft, now add the icing sugar, lemon juice, boiling water and vanilla essence and beat until smooth and creamy.
  2. Ice the cake and then sprinkle lemon zest over the top.
 
  • Prep Time: 30 minutes
  • Cook Time: 35 minutes