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Vegan Lemon Drizzle Cake with Orange & Clementine

Prep

30 mins - 1hr

Bake

1 hour 15 mins

Serves

5 to 10

Difficulty

Hard

About

This vegan lemon drizzle recipe is all about the citrus fruits, with added orange and clementine. Super fluffy, zingy and easy to make this classic cake will be one you'll want to come back to all year round.

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Lyle’s Golden Syrup Tin

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How to make the Lemon Drizzle Cake

Step 1

Mix flaxseed and boiling water. Stir and set aside.

Step 2

Combine flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder in a large bowl.

Step 3

In another bowl whisk oil, milk, vanilla, lemon zest & juice, and clementine zest & juice.

Step 4

Add your flax egg to your oil mixture and mix well.

Step 5

Combine your dry and wet mixtures.

Step 6

Mix until combined, but be careful not to overmix.

Step 7

Pour your mixture into a lined tin and smooth out the top.

Step 8

Bake at 180°C / 356°F for 45 minutes, then turn the oven down to 160°C / 320°F and bake for a further 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted in a middle comes out clean.

How to make the Lemon Drizzle

Step 1

In a small pan, combine all your lemon drizzle ingredients.

Step 2

Warm-up until the Lyle's Golden Syrup is dissolved.

Step 3

When the cake is baked, brush it with the lemon drizzle. Alternatively, you can slowly pour the drizzle on top of the cake, spreading it equally across the cake and letting it soak up.

How to add the toppings (optional)

Step 1

Decorate with almond flakes and more citrus zest.

Ingredients – 13 items

Serving

1

For the Lemon Drizzle Cake

Flour

Flax seed

ground

6 tsp

Boiling water

325 ml
Flour

Plain flour

600 g
Granulated Sugar

Granulated sugar

315 g
Salt-table

Pinch fine table salt

1 tsp
Baking-powder

Baking powder

6 tsp

Light olive oil

300 ml
Almond-milk

Almond milk

240 ml
Vanilla

Vanilla Extract

2 tbsp
Lemon-zest

A few scrapes of Lemon zest

2 tbsp
Lemon-juice

Fresh lemon juice

3 tbsp
Orange-zest

Clementine zest

1 tbsp
Orange-juice

Clementine juice

1 tbsp

For the Lemon Drizzle

Lyle's-golden-syrup

Lyle’s Golden Syrup

1 cup
Lemon-juice

Lemon juice

freshly squeezed

1
Lemon-zest

Lemon zest

1
Orange

Orange

freshly squeezed

1

For the Toppings (optional)

Flaked almonds

Flaked almonds, roughly chopped

Roasted

Lemon-zest

Lemon, orange & clementine zest

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