Ah, summer. There's nothing that says summer to me more than the Great British Bake Off (GBBO). I've been off the baking ball lately, but now that GBBO is playing again, it's time to get back on the ball and start baking. Here's the challenge, for every episode of GBBO, I'll take a recipe from the show and try to recreate best as I can at home.
This episode, we're going to recreate Jane's beautiful and classic lemon & poppy drizzle cake. Now, since GBBO has already uploaded the recipes, I won't bother reposting the recipe, but I'll link it here instead. The only differences were that instead of using ground almonds, I used some ground hazelnuts I had on hand instead, I didn't have any limoncello on hand so skipped that, and instead of using poppy seeds, I used some ready made poppy spread from Dr. Oetker's.
Quick tips:
- For the drizzle, use 2 -3 lemons instead of the 4, either that or increase the amount of sugar to match, because with the lemons I used, I ended up with much more juice than anticipated.
- To get the pattern on the icing, place icing into a piping bag and pipe in and out of the circle.
- To avoid making a mess, brush the lemon syrup on with a pastry brush instead of spooning the drizzle on the cake.
- If you don't have self-raising flour, simply use regular flour and add 1.5 tsps of baking powder and 0.5 tsp of salt to achieve the same effect.
