Vanilla Glazed Lemon Loaf Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 eggs
3/4 cup caster sugar
125 g butter (room temperature chopped)
3/4 cup buttermilk
2 lemons (finely grated rind only)
Vanilla Glaze
1 cup icing sugar (soft mix sifted)
30 g butter (melted)
2 tablespoons water (boiling)
1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Preparation

Preheat oven to 170C or 150C fan forced.
Grease and line a 11cm x 23cm pan.
Sift together flour and baking poowder.
Place eggs and caster sugar into a food processor and process until pale and then add butter and process until thick and creamy.
Add buttermilk and rind and pulse until combined and then add flour mixture and pulse until a batter forms.
Fill prepared pan and bake for 40-45 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes ouit clean.
Cool in pan for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile make Vanilla Glaze.
Combine all ingredients in a bowl until smooth.
Remove cake from pan and brush glaze over the cake.
Cool cake completely on a wire rack before serving.