Breads, Biscuits and Cakes Recipes - Lemon Square Rice Cake

  
 

Breads, Biscuits and Cakes Recipes - Lemon Square Rice Cake

Ingredients  

  • 100 g/4 oz/1/2 cup butter

  • 100 g/4 oz/1/2 cup caster (superfine) sugar

  • 2 eggs

  • 100 g/4 oz/1 cup plain (all-purpose) flour

  • 50 g/2 oz/1/2 cup ground rice

  • 2.5 ml/1/2 tsp baking powder

  • Grated rind and juice of 1 lemon

  • 100 g/4 oz/1/2 cup icing (confectioners') sugar, sifted

Method:

  1. Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.

  2. Mix the flour, rice and baking powder together with the lemon rind. Fold into the mixture with a metal spoon.

  3. Turn into a greased and lined 18 cm/7 in square cake tin (pan). Bake in the oven at 180°C/350°F/gas mark 4 for about 1 hour or until the centre springs back when lightly pressed.

  4. Cool slightly, then turn out, remove the paper and leave to cool on a wire rack.

  5. Make a smooth icing with a little of the lemon juice and the icing sugar. Spoon over the cake and leave to set.