Pumpkin Drizzle Cake

Ingredients

240g butter

175g caster sugar

Zest of 1 lemon

3 eggs, beaten

400g cooked pumpkin, mashed

360g flour

2 tsps baking powder

For the glaze: 100g sugar, juice of 1 lemon


Method

Heat oven to 180°C and grease a cake tin

Cream the butter, sugar and lemon zest until light and fluffy, then add the eggs and the pumpkin

Mix the flour and baking powder in a separate bowl

Fold the dry mixture into the wet

Once combined, pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin

Bake in the pre-heated oven for 50 minutes until it is beginning to come away at the sides of the tin

Let it cool for at least 20 minutes before turning out

To make the glaze: Heat 100g sugar with the juice from a lemon until the sugar is dissolved and the mixture starts to bubble. Pour over the cake.