Lemon drizzle cake recipe

This recipe is based on Tana Ramsay's. It creates the most beautifully moist cake you will ever taste that will keep for up to 4 days and not dry out.

The kids loved baking this with me and especially loved poking the cake with skewers to get all the juiciness inside!

Ingredients
225g unsalted butter
225g caster sugar
4 eggs
Finely grated zest 1 lemon
225g self raising flour

For the lemon topping
Juice of 1 lemon
80g caster sugar

As you can see there aren't many ingredients and this cake will easily serve 10-12 making it perfect for after a Sunday roast with leftovers for packed lunches on Monday.

Method
1- Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas mark 4. Beat together the butter and sugar until pale and creamy. 

Lemon drizzle cake recipe

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The Fat Hippo Underground Review

This post is based on a visit in 2014. Please check with venue direct for the most up to date info. 

Tonight we were invited along for a sneaky peek of The Fat Hippo Underground. We love, love, love The Fat Hippo in Jesmond and could not to wait to see what this new venture would have to offer.

The Fat Hippo Underground is situated in a prime location in the centre of Newcastle - just next to the Theatre royal on Shakespeare Street. Blink and you may walk past it though as it is just a small doorway leading you underground. Keep your eyes peeled for the illuminated red fat hippo above the door and you should find it!


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5 reasons to be cheerful this week

1. World book day
I loved seeing all of the pictures of little one's dressed up for world book day. My youngest even made the newspaper (he's the Gruffalo's child - front row)

2. Starting college
There is nothing like a new challenge to re-energise you. I started a business admin course at college this week, it's exciting to have something new to get my teeth into and I'm already looking forward to my first assignment.

3. Discovering discounted Yankee candle's
Haha, small things! We spend a lot of hours (yes hours) at work talking about Yankee candles. We have a bit of an obsession! My colleagues have been telling me about an outlet that sells them at a heavily discounted price for ages! I finally managed to visit this week and managed to get some fantastic bargains! I will be back next pay day.


4. Date night
Once every 4 weeks both me and hubby finish work at 8pm (ish) on a Saturday night and the kids sleep over at grannies. Although we often don't feel like it after a long day at work, we use this time to go out just us two and I love it. This week we are going for a pizza with some vouchers we have left over from a review.


5. Spring is here
This week the kids have been to the park and played outside with their friends every night after school. We've been able to open our windows without freezing and our daffodils are flowering. Spring is definitely here.


What reasons do you have to be cheerful this week? 
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The obligatory pancake post!

Shrove Tuesday - the day when you are supposed to use up your store cupboard ingredients in preparation for lent - yet now the opposite happens. Supermarket aisle ends are packed full of various 'pancake kits', sauces and toppings and instead of using up what we have in our cupboard it seems we have been convinced to buy into this market and actually spend money buying more ingredients!


I have to confess we did use a 'Aunt Bessie's Yorkshire pudding mix' we had in our cupboard and today when I was in our local supermarket I was tempted to buy a bottle of toffee sauce and a jif lemon! Can't believe I fell into the trap! Especially when we already had lots of toppings we could use in our store cupboard!

The kids were so excited to make pancakes.


Their excitement came to a head as they stood back and watched me flip the pancakes! I have not seen them so excited in a long time! Pleased to say that none ended up stuck on the ceiling or even the floor.

Lindisfarne lemon curd was our favourite topping. The kids enjoyed honey, lemon juice and toffee sauce (7yo even tried all of this together!)

Although we always enjoy making pancakes, I think this is probably the first year the whole family have actually enjoyed eating them all which was nice (rather than messing about, making a mess with lots of toppings on the plate and then leaving the pancake)




Did you enjoy pancake day? What were the favourite toppings in your house this year?



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