Baking with lemon creates such a lovely fresh smell throughout your kitchen that you’ll wonder why you ever bake anything else. This super simple cake is just delish for morning tea, and is perfect with a liberal dusting of icing sugar. The recipe is from my stand-by AWW Quick Mix Cakes book, and all I did was reduce the amount of sugar from the suggested one cup.
Gather:
125g butter at room temp, diced
2 teaspoons grated lemon rind
2 eggs
¾ cup caster sugar
1 ½ cups self-raising flour
¾ cup plain yogurt
Let’s get to it:
Preheat oven to 170C and grease and line a 14cmx21cm loaf tin with baking paper.
Put all ingredients into bowl of electric mixer and beat until light and changed in colour.
Scrape into pan and bake for 50-60 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean.
Allow to cool in pan for 10 minutes before cooling completely on wire rack.
Serve as is, or make up a simple icing by mixing 2/3 cup sifted icing sugar with 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice and enough water to make a pouring consistency. Sprinkle over extra lemon zest.
the hungry mum 
Yum! LOVE lemon cakes…
me too! And I’m all about the easy. #lazy
Looks delicious 🙂
Thanks!
This looks delicious!
Cheers – easy & yum, what more could you want?
Awww, you made very wonderful bakes! =)
Why, thank you! You’re so sweet 🙂
So quick, looks delish
Delish & quick – what more could you ask for?!
Looks delicious and super easy! Just what I like!!
Me too – I’m all about fast & easy 🙂
A weakness of mine for sure 😀
Cheers
CCU
lemon + cake = 🙂
Yum!! I love this cake… sudden urge to bake one myself… but must get to bed instead. Boo!
hehehe! Fear not, recipe will still be there in the morn. Have a good sleep 🙂
I LOVE pound cake… this looks divine 😀
Thanks – you can’t beat an old fashioned cake 😉
Yum this looks great!
Cheers!
I love easy cakes! Especially easy and delicious cakes!
Easy & delicious is the holy grail of baking!
I LOVE lemon cake. This one looks so moist. Thank you for the recipe.
me too! thanks for the sweet words.
A very moist recipe indeed and love that close up shot of the top. Yum!
Moist cake = good cake 🙂
I love lemon yoghurt cake and I am loving your take on it. So great to have an easy cake to make in an emergency!
You can churn this out in the morning while juggling breakfast to have a yummy cake at picnic/work/just cos!
Ooh..i love Jalna yogurt!
You had me at lemon and yogurt. What a perfect combination.
And I love having loafs for breakfasts..they are so simple to make but so delicious. Yours look really lovely!
Jalna is so good, isn’t it! No nasties, unlike many yogurts out there. Thanks for your kind words 🙂
Oh my, this looks awesome! I want some 🙂 it looks perfect for morning or afternoon tea 🙂
Thanks! Make it – it only takes a sec!
I am going too! I am going to take your recipe and mix it with my grapefruit scone recipe and probably make it gluten/dairy-free. It is going to be my addition for Easter Sunday 🙂
I love lemon cakes! This looks beautiful, tasty and reminds me that I want to make some lemon cake. 🙂
Me too! Hope you make it – tell me what you think of it x
Yum! I love lemon, and your cake here looks incredibly moist and delicious. I happen to have a go-to lemon yogurt cake recipe, but yours is luring me in with its wonderfully simple ingredient list. I think it might be time for me to try this — thank you!
I’ve tried a few different recipes over the years but this one has never let me down.
YUM! I can see what brought my lemon cake to your mind. *laugh* That looks wonderful – and it sounds incredibly easy to make. Mmm lemmmonnnnn…
It is sooooo easy – you could make this in your sleep Awanthi x
This looks delicious, I love lemon cake and this one doesn’t seem to difficult to make. Have never heard of yoghurt in cake but really looking forward to giving it a try.
Once you’ve tried yogurt in cakes you’ll be hooked! It is zingy and light and creamy and makes it so moist.
I made this cake (or similar) based off the MasterChef recipe that Taste featured a while ago. It was so delicious 😀 Guessing you enjoyed yours as much as we did 🙂
Lemon & yogurt is always dlish in a cake! Glad yours was yummy, too 🙂
this looks so fluffy! my parents like a more buttery cake though – so I might give this one a try when they’re out!
yes, this is practically health food! hehehe 🙂
This looks so lovely, lemony and moist! I just love baking with citrusy flavours 😀
Thanks! I love citrus in cakes too – so fresh & zingy x
The cake looks delicious and fresh. I wish I could have it for breakfast. Thanks for sharing. Enjoy the rest of your week!!!
Oh, thanks 🙂 Love a hit of zingy citrus in a cake. Hope your week is wonderful x