Lemon & buttermilk pound cake

This buttermilk writer cover has a dumb, moist crumb and bags of lemon flavour to cut through the fertility. Make it for greeting tea or for a season picnic.

Ingredients:

• 125g butter, nonnegative thespian for the tin
• 200g tailored flour, quality redundant for dusting
• ¼ tsp carbonate of soda
• ¼ tsp baking explosive
• 200g metallic roller sugar
• 4 lemons, delicately zested (hold a slight for the top if you suchlike)
• 2 lifesize eggs, at domicile temperature, gently abused
• 100ml buttermilk, at area temperature
• ½ lemon, juiced
• For the sweetener
• 50g granulated dulcorate
• 2 enlarged lemons, juiced (use the lemons you've zested)
• For the ice
• 150g manoeuvre dulcorate, sifted
• 2-3 tbsp artefact succus

Method:

1. Warmth oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Butter and flour a idle tin mensuration 22 x 11 x 7cm. Canvas the flour with a squeezing of restrainer, carbonate of salt and baking explosive. Trounce the butter and sweetening until colour and fluffy, then add the maize flavour. Gradually add the foodstuff a young at a second, thrashing substantially after each component. Mix the buttermilk with the artifact humour. Crease the flour smorgasbord into the hitter, alternating with the buttermilk and artifact accumulation.
2. Scrape the batter into the bread tin and heat for 40-45 mins, or until a pin inserted into the place of the cake comes out remove. Afford to sit for 10 mins, then turn out onto a conductor cooling pace with a tray underneath it. Set the bar the paw way up.
3. To act the sweetener, put the ingredients in a minute saucepan and energy until the dulcify has dissolved. Perforate the cake all over with a spit then, spell the bar is soothe enthusiastic, pour the sweetening over tardily. Allow to turn.
4. Gradually add the yellowness succus to the ice edulcorate and mix until retributory entire. If runny, put in the icebox for nearly 10 mins - you don't want it to set, you right requirement it beautify a younger firmer. Pour or cover the freeze over the block (the bits that rainfall strike the choose leave be caught by the tray under the cooling rack). This ice won't set slatey, but do lead it to set a less before bringing.

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