Watching the Great British Bake Off this year has really got me inspired to start baking again. I used to love baking cakes and creating tasty cookie recipes but life just seems to get in the way these days. So, yesterday I made the effort to make time to bake something and came up with these Fruity Lemon Drizzle Fingers.
My husband mentioned the other day that he was craving fruit cake. I like fruit cake at Christmas but it’s not one I would choose any other time of year. This got me thinking, how could I make a fruit cake that both he and I could enjoy.
After some research and when I say researching, I mean flicking through pictures of cakes and wondering how I could adapt the fruit cake into something better. I decided to go with a kind of hybrid of the traditional fruit cake and a lemon drizzle cake.
Ingredients
- 110 grams Butter – at room temperature
- 2 Eggs
- 110 grams Caster sugar (or coconut sugar)
- 225 grams Self raising flour
- 225 grams mixed fruit (for my mixed fruit I used: Apricot chunks, raisins and cherries).
- 6 tablespoons of milk (almond or normal)
- Half teaspoon of Cinnamon
- Half teaspoon of Ginger
Lemon Drizzle Ingredients
- 85 grams caster sugar
- 1 and a half Lemons.
Method
- Pre-heat oven to 160C Fan, 180C normal oven.
- Line a square or rectangle tin (with quite low sides) with grease proof paper.
- Rub the butter and the flour together until it resembles breadcrumbs.
- Add the sugar & mixed fruit & spices in to the mixture.
- Add the milk and eggs and mix together well until it has a drop like consistency. It plops off the spoon back into the bowl.
- Pour the mixture into the lined tin.
- Cook for 45 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
- Whilst it’s in the oven, make the Lemon Drizzle topping by mixing the caster sugared lemon juice together in a bowl.
- Once the cake is baked, remove from the oven and pierce the top of the cake with a small skewer and pour over the Lemon Drizzle whilst it’s still hot.
- Leave to cool.
- Once it has cooled and the top has become slightly crispy, cut into squares or rectangle lengths.
I may be slightly biased but I love these Fruity Lemon Drizzle Fingers! Even my husband and Mother-In-Law both said it was the best cake I had ever made them.
