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Vegan Lemon Drizzle Cake

about 8 - 10 slices
Easy
60 minutes
Bake a lemon drizzle cake that’s easy to make and bursts with zingy lemon flavour. Just minus the eggs, butter or dairy ingredients.
This vegan cake infuses sponge with lemon juice, lemon zest, lemon extract, and ground almonds. Decorated with a lemon juice drizzle icing, it’ll delight both your vegan and non-vegan guests.
Recipe Ingredients
How to Prepare
Tips
You can make this cake in an 8” round tin, just reduce the baking time to 30-40 minutes.
Tips
Why not replace the lemons with orange to create an orange drizzle loaf? 
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Recipe Ingredients

For the Sponge
225 mlSoya Milk
30 mlLemon Juice (2 tbsp, juice of 1 lemon)
180 gSelf-Raising Flour
75 gGround Almonds
5 gDr. Oetker Baking Powder (1 tsp)
225 gCaster Sugar
2Lemon Zest
125 mlVegetable Oil
5 mlDr. Oetker Sicilian Lemon Extract (1 tsp)
For the Drizzle
2Lemon Juice
100 gCaster Sugar
For the Decoration
60 gIcing Sugar
15 mlWater (1 tbsp)

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1

For the Cake

Preheat the oven to 180°C/160°C/Gas Mark 4. Grease and Line a 900g loaf tin. Mix together the soy milk and lemon juice until in begins to curdle and thicken, leave to one side. 

2

In a large bowl mix together the flour, ground almonds, Baking Powder and caster sugar until well combined.

3

Add the lemon zest, oil, Lemon Extract and soya milk mixture, stir until the mixture is just combined. 

4

Pour the mixture into the prepared loaf tin and smooth the top. Bake in the oven for 60-80 minutes, until golden brown and a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. 

5

Whilst the cake is baking, make the drizzle mix together the sugar and lemon juice and set aside. Once the cake is baked, skewer the top of the cake and pour over the drizzle and leave to soak in and cool. 

6

To Decorate

Once the cake is cooled mix together 60g icing sugar and 1tbsp of water of lemon juice to create a pourable glace icing. Drizzle over the top of the cake and sprinkle with some lemon zest!

Tips

  • You can make this cake in an 8” round tin, just reduce the baking time to 30-40 minutes.
  • Why not replace the lemons with orange to create an orange drizzle loaf?