This month’s reader recipe is a delicious lemon drizzle cake, egg-free, marvellously moist and with a lovely pop of lemon and a rich caramel flavour.
The humble lemon drizzle cake has had a few incarnations on the blog in the form of a Gluten Free Lemon Drizzle Cake, a Lemon Polenta Cake, Denyse’s Lemon and Walnut Cake and let’s not forget the Thermomix Lemon Cake with Crunchy Topping!
I first tried this cake in the motherland at my mum’s friend Cathy’s house. She invited us for afternoon tea and put on the most wonderful spread but the star of the show was this delightful lemon cake. It was so lovely and light that I couldn’t believe it was an egg free recipe. This is one of Cathy’s favourite bakes but she mixed things up replacing caster sugar with coconut sugar with the most delicious results. This cake is stand alone delicious but if you want to add the drizzle, you can do so with coconut or regular sugar. I’ve tried both and find that the coconut sugar brings more colour and a fuller flavour to the cake whereas with  regular sugar, the lemon juice really pops. The choice is yours. Whether you serve this cake with or without drizzle, you’re in for a treat.
This is a great recipe to have in the home baking arsenal and perfect for egg-free friends or any friends come to that! Best of all, as this cake needs no eggs and no butter and just a handful of pantry staples, you can make it at a moment̵...