Amount of lemon juice in Double Lemon Drizzle Cake
Good morning, Lindsey
You might get this twice, if so, apologies. I had three lemons and two limes so I made the double lemon drizzle cake using the lime juice as part of the syrup. When I began to spoon the syrup over the cake it became obvious there was too much syrup as it began to puddle on top of the cake so I drained some off. The cake was good, very moist. Two questions. Would the cake have absorbed all the juice eventually and been OK or would it have been a soggy mess? Although the lemons were smallish they might have yielded too much juice, I ended up with about 250 mls of juice for the syrup, Is there an approximate amount of juice I should have ended up with?
Finally we have made 750 litres of wine!
Love
Wendy x
Hi Wendy,
Congratulations on the wine. Sounds like success to me but truthfully I have no idea! I hope it tastes good.
For the lemon syrup I would say that 250mls is about right. It does seem a lot but it is intentional. We find that the syrup gets soaked up quite well in into the hot sponge. Then it is very syrupy when it is cool. We show this cake in the cookery school just in case you haven’t seen it.
Lesson 2. Other sponge cakes
Our very best as always,
Lindsey