Sugar-Free Lemon Drizzle Cake
- 225 g self-raising flour, sifted
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 225 g xylitol artificial sweetener
- 2 lemons, zest of
- 2 large eggs, at room temperature
- 125 ml sunflower oil
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 200 g 0% fat Greek yogurt
- 1 lemon, juice of (for drizzle)
- 50 g xylitol artificial sweetener (for drizzle)
- Preheat the oven to 180C/ 160C fan/ Gas 4. Grease and line a 1.2 litre loaf tin (22cm x 13cm width, 7cm depth) with baking parchment. Mix together the flour, baking powder, xylitol and lemon zest in a large bowl.
- Mix the eggs, sunflower oil, milk and yoghurt together in a separate bowl or jug and stir them into the flour mixture.
- Spoon into a tin and smooth the surface. Transfer to the oven immediately, bake on the middle shelf of the oven for 1 hour - 1 hour 10 minutes Check after 50 mins, if the cake is becoming too dark, cover loosely with foil.
- Just before the end of cooking time, make the drizzle by heating the lemon juice and xylitol. Stir over a low heat until the xylitol has dissolved. Once the cake is cooked, take it out of the oven and pour over the drizzle.
- Cool in the tin before turning it out.
- Recipe from bbcgoodfood.com, January 2012 BBC GoodFood Magazine.
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Taken from www.food.com/recipe/sugar-free-lemon-drizzle-cake-528425 (may not work)