Ingredients
Wet:
▢2/3 cup / 165 ml vegetable or canola oil
▢2 eggs
▢1 ½ tbsp grated lemon rind (1 large or 2 medium lemons)
▢¼ cup / 65 ml fresh lemon juice
▢1 cup / 250g plain yoghurt (Note 1)
▢1.25 cups / 275g caster sugar (superfine sugar, granulated ok too)
Dry:
▢2 cups/300g plain flour (all purpose flour)
▢4 tsp baking powder
▢Pinch of salt
Glaze:
▢1 3/4 cup / 210 g icing sugar (powdered sugar)
▢1 tbsp lemon juice
▢1 1/2 tbsp plain yogurt
Directions

Instructions
Preheat oven to 180C/350F (standard) or 160C/320F (fan/convection). Grease a 20 cm / 8” cake pan with butter.

Place Wet ingredients in a bowl. Whisk until combined.
Sprinkle over flour, baking powder and salt. Whisk until smooth – few small lumps is ok.
Pour into pan – it should be fairly thick but pourable (see video).

Bake for 50 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
Remove metal ring and cool on rack then glaze.
Glaze:
Place ingredients in a bowl and whisk until smooth.

Test down the side of the bowl to get the right thickness, using 1 tsp of yoghurt at a time to thin it out if required. Glaze should drip (slowly, because it’s thick) but not be see through.
Place rack on a tray or baking paper.
Pour glaze over the middle of the cake, gently push towards the edges so it drips down the sides.
Let it set for 1 hour before transferring to a serving plate.
See note for how I did the lemon slices in the photos, and the alternative quick Cream Cheese Frosting.
5. STORAGE: Keep in an airtight container for up to 5 days, it stays really moist.

The glaze sweats into the cake slightly so you get a similar effect to those coke syrup cakes / poke cakes where you pour sweet syrup over the cake to soak into it and this also helps keep it moist. If it’s crazy hot where you are (Dec – Feb in Australia), keep it in the fridge after 24 hours (because mould loves moisture + heat and this cake is very moist 🙂 )
Nutrition Information:
Calories:412cal (21%)Carbohydrates:62g (21%)Protein:4g (8%)Fat:16g (25%)Saturated Fat:1g (6%)Cholesterol:36mg (12%)Sodium:28mg (1%)Potassium:283mg (8%)Sugar:41g (46%)Vitamin A:70IU (1%)Vitamin C:0.7mg (1%)Calcium:129mg (13%)Iron:1.5mg (8%)