scent of summer

Today is the last day of summer, I decided to celebrate the end of this glorious season with lemon because lemon always remind me of summer. Their bright yellow colour, their scent, a whiff of lemon always chase my sorrow away, just like a ray of sunshine, always brought happiness.

Because lemon is such a volatile fruit, there were thousand of recipe with lemon being the main ingredient. From lemon tart, to lemon pie, to lemon biscuits to lemon cake... and many more, but with my guests arriving in less than 1 hour time, I decided to bake this easiest 1 bowl lemon cake.
As the name suggest, it only involved 1 bowl, 1 balloon whisk, 1 sieve and 1 spatula. Minimal clean up, my kind of cake!

1 Bowl Lemon Cake

Ingredients:

• 11/2 cups caster sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup oil ( any light flavoured oil )
• 1 cup yoghurt ( I use vanilla yoghurt )
• 2 lemons rind, grated
• Juice of 1 lemon
• Pinch of salt
  
• 2 cups SR flour, sifted
• Icing sugar for dusting
  
• Vanilla yoghurt, to serve
  

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180 degree Celsius, grease and line a 20 cm round cake pan with baking paper.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together the sugar, eggs, oil, yoghurt, lemon rinds and lemon juice.
3. Fold in the flour and pinch of salt. Lightly fold until just combine.
4. Pour into the cake pan and bake in the oven for 50 mins, or until cooked.
5. Cool in pan for about 5 mins, turn out into wire rack to cool.
6. Dust the cake with icing sugar before serving, and serve either warm or cold, with yoghurt and a cup of lemon tea!
   

I serve this cake after 1 hour of cooling, and it's still warm, and very moist.
The next day, we celebrate the first day of Autumn with the left over cake, it's still moist, less crumbly and more flavoursome. Yum!