- Serves12
- CourseCake
- Prepare20 mins
- Cook35 mins
- Total time55 mins
- Pluscooling
Ingredients
- 250g unsalted butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
- 250g caster sugar
- 1 unwaxed lemon, zest and juice
- 4 medium free range eggs
- 250g self-raising flour
- ½ tsp fine sea salt
- 6 tbsp whole milk
- 150g pack raspberries
- 100g demerara sugar
- 60ml limoncello
Method
Preheat the oven to 180ºC, gas mark 4. Grease and line a 30x20cm baking tin with baking parchment. In a large bowl, use an electric hand mixer to beat together the butter and caster sugar for 2-3 minutes until light and fluffy, then beat in the lemon zest. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, until combined.
Sift over the flour and salt, then gently fold in until just combined. Gently stir in the milk and raspberries. Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 30-35 minutes until risen, golden and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Just before the cake comes out of the oven, make the soaking mixture. In a bowl, mix the lemon juice with the demerara sugar and limoncello.
As soon as the cake comes out of the oven, pierce it all over with a skewer or fork. Spoon the limoncello mixture over the top. Allow to cool completely in the tin before slicing to serve.
Cook’s tip
Icing the cake
In a bowl, mix 50g icing sugar with 1 tsp water until it reaches a drizzling consistency. Once the cake has completely cooled, drizzle over the icing, then scatter with 1 tbsp freeze-dried raspberries and the pared zest of 1 unwaxed lemon.
Nutritional
Typical values per serving when made using specific products in recipe
Energy | 1,664kJ/ 398kcals |
|---|---|
Fat | 20g |
Saturated Fat | 12g |
Carbohydrates | 47g |
Sugars | 32g |
Fibre | 1.4g |
Protein | 5.1g |
Salt | 0.5g |