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  • Serves 12
  • 40 minutes
  • Difficulty Medium
  • 9 Ingredients

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A light cake with delicate lemon flavour and tart glaze. Perfect for morning or afternoon tea, or a grandfather who loves Madeira cake.


Ingredients (serves 12)

  • 2¼ Cups Plain Flour
  • 1 Cup Caster Sugar
  • 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
  • 1 teaspoon Bicarb Soda
  • 1 Cup Water
  • 6½ Tablespoons Oil (Canola, Sunflower, Vegetable)
  • 1 Lemon, zested and juiced
  • 1 Lime, juiced
  • ¾ Cup Soft Icing Sugar

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C or 160°C for fan force.
  2. Grease and line 20 X 20 cm square pan.
  3. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, and bicarb soda together.
  4. Mix water, oil, lemon zest, and lemon juice together.
  5. Mix wet ingredients with dry ingredients and stir to combine.
  6. Pour into prepared tray and bake for 30 - 35 minutes.
  7. Cool for 10 minutes.
  8. To prepare glaze: Mix lime juice into the icing sugar to taste and spread over the cooled cake.

Notes

I adapted this from A Big Man's World Lemon Loaf because the result was dense and heavy. A full lime's worth of juice makes a very tart glaze. You can also make the glaze with 1-2 tablespoons of extra lemon juice, milk, or plain water with a dash of vanilla extract. Mix up the flavours by using lemon and lime juice in the cake, or try a different citrus fruit.

  • It would appear that this cake could double up as a pudding for dessert. Thanks so much for sharing.

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  • Love lemon cake! This would make a great morning/afternoon tea

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  • Love citrus cakes and this one looks delicious

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  • Not too fazed by it being a vegan recipe. It looks bloody delicious, I love the citrus cakes

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  • Ooh, now this sounds interesting. Lemon and lime are two of my fave things in a dessert or sweet treat.

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  • I’m not vegan, but this sounds lovely!


    • I’m not vegan either. Just ran out of eggs and milk one day and wanted cake. Now it’s one of my favourite cakes to make.

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  • That looks easy and delicious. Í have to try it

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  • Sounds easy enough.
    I love anything lemon so will definitely try it.
    Thank you for sharing. I always like to choose things which are cruelty free!

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  • It’s so lovely see some vegan options for those who need it. This looks really yummy

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  • This looks and sounds delicious. We do have sone vegan visitors at time so I will have to give this a try.

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  • Looks delicious but can you use olive oil instead??


    • I’m not sure. Half of this was trial and error for me lol.
      You could always halve the ingredients and try it with olive oil.



      • Yes you can substitute any oil with olive oil for baking, I do it a lot

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  • This Vegan Lemon Cake With Lime Glaze looks delicious and not too hard to make. I love a good lemon cake.

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  • Lemon cake sounds lovely for a light morning tea.


    • Using orange might be a nice alternative too.

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