This month we learning all about procedural writing. We have been reading lots of recipes and instructions on how to play board games to help us identify the different features of this genre.
Baking is one of our favourite activities and we took this as a great opportunity to make a delicious lemon drizzle cake and to write the recipe down so we can share it here with everyone 👍👩🍳 We hope you find it easy to follow and enjoy! Be sure to let us know if you try it! 🍰
Ingredients:
210g of self – raising flour
1/2 tsp of baking powder
200g of margarine/ butter
200g of caster sugar
3 eggs
1 lemon
100g icing sugar
1tsp water
Method:
- Measure out 200g margarine/ butter and and 200g of caster sugar and mix together in a large bowl.
- When the mixture is light and fluffy, add in the eggs, 1 at a time and keep mixing.
- Lift the sieve up high and sift in the self – raising flour and baking powder.
- Mix with a wooden spoon to keep it light and fluffy.
- Juice and zest the lemon. Add in half the lemon juice and half the zest, reserving the rest for the icing.
- Add your batter to a fully lined baking tin and oven bake at 180 degrees C for 40 minutes.
- When cooled, squeeze some lemon over the cake.
- To make the icing, sift icing sugar and mix with a teaspoon of water. Add in the remainder of your lemon juice and zest.
- Drizzle the icing over the cake and wait until it sets before cutting.
- Enjoy 😀
We hope you find this recipe easy to follow. We’d love to hear from you if you try it at home.
Here is our baking in action:
Making sure ingredients are accounted for. 
Teamwork! 
Careful when cracking the eggs! 
Making the mixture light and fluffy! 
Measuring skills in action! 
Preparing the mixture.
Spreading the mix in the tin. 
Pros! 
Getting ready to share. 
Zest the lemon! 
Sieving carefully. 
Teamwork! 
The finished product!
