Just the look of it on mojewypieki.com made me want to eat it right away. My kind of cake, light, moist and delicious. All I had to do was to obtain some marzipan paste, which in Winchcombe is not easy. Co Op had some, but not the most astonishing quality one could ask for, it had to do today though, as I wanted cake!
For a small cake in my square tin I melted 100 g of butter, which sat waiting alongside 100 ml of milk. 2 small eggs beaten with 4 tbsps of sugar and some vanilla sugar until pale, light and fluffy. A zest and juice of 1 lemon added ( this is the only amount I kept unchanged, all other ingredients cut by half for a small cake, lemon must be quite strong for me). 60 g of grated marzipan in. 150 g of plain flour and 1 tsp of baking powder. All combined and into the tin, oven ready at 160 degrees for about 30 minutes. Finished off with a simple lemon icing – lemon juice added to icing sugar till a runny glaze appears.
I love it. There is a risk it might be all gone this evening. 🙂
