Lemon and almond Christmas cake
Ingredients
- 200g unsalted butter
- 200g unrefined white sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 large lemon, zest and juice
- 200g ground almonds
- 200g cake flour
- 5ml (1 tsp) baking powder
Instructions
1
Preheat the oven to 180°C.
2
Beat the butter and sugar together until creamy, add theeggs 1 at a time, then the lemon zest and juice. Stir in the ground almonds and sift in the flour and baking powder.
3
Place in a cake tin lined with greased baking paper (keep butter wrappers folded up in the fridge to grease baking paper when needed) and bake for 45 – 50 minutes. Test by inserting a skewer – if it is clean when removed the cake is cooked through. Leave it to cool for 15 minutes, removefrom the tin and leave to cool totally on a rack.
4
This cake is blissfully plain – for a festive touch decorate with glacé or dried fruits and nuts.
Recipe adapted from Harvest Diaries, by Christine Stevens (Sunbird, R230)
