This is the best and easiest lemon loaf you can make. With regular ingredients and just a little bit of a toss and mix, you can make this delicious lemon loaf with just about 10 ingredients. It’s not sweet or tangy or sour and balances flavours with the right amount of lemon coming through.
I first found this recipe more than a decade ago, claiming that it was a copycat recipe for the Starbucks lemon loaf. Now I never quite got to authenticate that claim because I’ve never had the lemon loaf at Starbucks. However, I’m more than willing to claim that this recipe makes a great Lemon loaf, and with the gentle tweaks I’ve made over the years, I think it’s just perfect.
Expect a soft texture with this cake, not fudgy or dense, but more of a melt-in-your-mouth at first bite kind of feeling. This cake tastes great on its own and needs no additional icing or glaze, but if you’d like to try that, it should work well
Other Loaves to make
If you have been following my blog for a while, you already know that loaves and tea cakes are my go-to for baking on most days. Of all the loaves I’ve made, here are my favourites, and I’ll tell you why.
- Pistachio and Rose Loaf, this one tastes out of this world good, and I also have the sweetest memories of baking it with my boys for Mother’s Day some years ago. The cake is just as memorable.
- Chocolate loaf cake, because you always need a super chocolaty chocolate cake recipe in every form possible
- Orange Coconut cake; this one tastes as good as it sounds. It’s a great combination of flavours, and light and airy.
- Chocolate Babka; if you set aside the technicalities of whether it fits the defnition of a loaf or not, there is every other reason to love this babka. I urge you to bake it once and decide if it is worth the effort. I promise you, it’ll become a family favourite instantly.
A simple lemon loaf cake that ticks all the boxes of flavour, texture and effort.
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1/3 cup lemon juice & zest of one lemon
1/3 cup oil
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 175 °C. Line and grease a medium-sized loaf tin
- In a bowl, mix the flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Set aside
- In a separate bowl, mix all the wet ingredients, using a whisk
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and whisk until just combined
- Pour the batter into the prepared tin and bake in a preheated oven at 175 °C for 50-55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the loaf comes out clean
