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By Hassan

Lemon and Yuzu loaf cake

Name: Lemon and Yuzu loaf cake
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 2 h
Cuisine: Asian, Japanese
Ingredients: • 210 g of caster sugar; • 20 g light brown sugar; • 3 large eggs; • 125 ml of double cream; • 200 g of plain flour; • 5 g of baking powder; • ½ teaspoon of salt; • 50 g of neutral oil (e.g. veg oil); • 40 g of butter, unsalted, melted and cooled; • 3 Lemons/Oranges/Yuzu zest; 100 ml of 1:1 fruit sugar syrup (Made by mixing 50 ml Yuzu juice and 50 g sugar); 150 g of glace icing (Made with mixing lemon/yuzu fruit juice and 150 g of icing sugar till the right consistency)

10 steps

Prep:1hCook:1h

Lemon and Yuzu loaf cake, you can also make this recipe without using Yuzu and just make a delicious lemon drizzle loaf instead!

Updated at: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 06:44:06 GMT

Ingredients

8 servings

210gcaster sugar

20glight brown sugar

3eggs

large

125mldouble cream

200gplain flour

5gbaking powder

½ teaspoonsalt

50gneutral oil

veg oil

40gbutter

unsalted, melted and cooled

3Lemons

100mlfruit sugar syrup

1:1, Made by mixing 50 ml Yuzu juice and 50 g sugar

150gglace icing

Made with mixing lemon/yuzu fruit juice and 150 g of icing sugar till the right consistency

Instructions

Step 1

Rub/whisk together the zest with the sugars and leave to immerse for 5 minutes before continuing

Step 2

Preheat oven to 160 °C and grease and line 2lb loaf cake tin

Step 3

Whisk together the flour, salt and baking powder in a separate bowl

Step 4

Whisk together sugars with eggs for 3-5 minutes till thick and pale in colour

Step 5

Gently whisk in the cream and the vanilla extract

Step 6

Whisk/fold in the dry ingredients till combined then finally whisk in the oil and butter to form the cake batter

Step 7

Pour the batter into the loaf tin (Aiming for around 750-850 g of batter per tin). Pipe line of soft butter (or use line of oil) in the centre of the loaf.

Step 8

Then place into the oven and bake for 50-70 minutes till it come clean with a skewer.

Step 9

Remove from the oven and leave to cool slightly, before skewering and brushing with a 1:1 sugar syrup.

Step 10

Cover cake with glace icing and then place back into the oven for 3-5 minutes to set the glaze. top with candied Yuzu/lemon peel