Lemon & Huckleberry Loaf

January 11-12, 2014

Last weekend nosotros had another sewing day alongside Bec as well as Clamps - Michael made an entire shirt, as well as Bec as well as I at i time convey a pretty cool retro wearing clothing inwards the works. Bec prepared bread, Clamps fried seitan, as well as they seat us inwards accuse of snacks. So Michael as well as I collected shiny vegan treats from the Korean grocers surrounding the Queen Victoria Markets, as well as thus delved within for around cheapish blueberries as well as lemons.

The blueberries as well as lemons were for this loaf cake, from Isa Does It. It's a uncomplicated i bowl job, as well as I trialled a distich of tweaks to larn inwards simpler yet for my kitchen (all successful!). It took a lilliputian less fourth dimension than expected to bake through, as well as yous tin encounter higher upwards that the crust split, which I genuinely quite like. On tiptop is a simple, runny glaze of vanilla, lemon juice as well as icing saccharide (if you're non corking on those lilliputian flecks of white above, sifting the icing saccharide should cook that correct up). Isa Chandra Moskowitz deems it optional, but if yous similar a potent lemony season inwards your sweets I'd strongly recommend going for the glaze.

Even if yous produce skip it, yous tin endure certain of moist, cakey loaf - I had to spell mine thickly to avoid the cake crumbling nether the knife. Bec spread her get-go spell alongside margarine, as well as Clamps served i after alongside a spoonful of kokosnoot yoghurt on top, but I liked this loaf real much on its own.

Lemon as well as huckleberry loaf
(very slightly adapted from from Isa Chandra Moskowitz's Isa Does It)

cake
2/3 loving cup soymilk
iii tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest
1/4 loving cup vegetable fossil oil
3/4 loving cup caster sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
ii cups plainly flour
ii 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 loving cup blueberries

glaze
1/2 loving cup icing sugar
ii tablespoons lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon vanilla

Preheat an oven to 180°C as well as describe a loaf tin alongside paper.

In a large bowl, whisk together the milk, lemon juice as well as zest. Add the oil, saccharide as well as vanilla as well as whisk around more. Sift inwards the flour, baking pulverization as well as salt, stirring everything together to shape a shine batter. Fold inwards the blueberries.

Spray the papered loaf tin alongside a lilliputian fossil oil as well as pour inwards the batter, smoothing over the top. Bake the loaf for 45-60 minutes, until it's golden brownish on tiptop as well as a skewer through the centre of the cake comes out clean. Leave the cake to cool inwards the tin for fifteen minutes, as well as thus exterior the tin for at to the lowest degree an hour.

To brand the glaze, whisk together the ingredients as well as spoon or pour them over the cake. The glaze is real runny, thus I picked my spots, dribbled the glaze slowly, as well as allowed around of it to puddle inwards the baking paper. Allow the glaze to cool as well as laid a lilliputian earlier serving.