Baking Recipes - Fresh Lemon Slices Recipe

  
 

Baking Recipes - Fresh Lemon Slices Recipe

Ingredients

Makes 36

  • 250 g/8 oz butter or margarine, softened

  • 75 g/3 oz icing sugar

  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

  • 250 g/8 oz plain flour

  • 4 eggs

  • 175 g/6 oz granulated sugar

  • grated rind of 1 lemon

  • 6 tablespoons lemon juice

Method:

  1. Generously grease a 30 x 23 cm/12 x 9 inch shallow baking tin. Put the butter, two-thirds of the icing sugar and the vanilla extract into a bowl and cream until light and fluffy.

  2. Sift the flour and fold into the creamed mixture, a little at a time, until completely incorporated.

  3. Spread the mixture evenly in the prepared tin and bake in a preheated oven, 190°C (375°F), Gas Mark 5, for 20 minutes.

  4. Meanwhile, put the eggs, granulated sugar, lemon rind and lemon juice into a bowl. Stir to blend the ingredients but do not beat together.

  5. Pour the mixture over the baked pastry layer. Return the tin to the oven and bake for about 20 minutes until the topping is set and lightly browned.

  6. Remove the tin from the oven and sift the remaining icing sugar over the warm cake to cover it generously. Cut the cake into slices. Remove from the tin when cool.