Super Healthy Baking: Sugar Free Lemon Drizzle

This zingy dessert is a traditional favourite among cake-lovers the world over, even though it's usually full of sugar. This sugar-free version uses natural sweetener Xylitol instead, but still retains the same great flavour as before. Lemon drizzle fans rejoice!

• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hour, 10 mins
• Total Time: 1 hour, 20 mins

Serves: 8-10

Category: Healthy Eating,Cakes,Sugar Free

Ingredients

For the mixture
• 225g self-raising flour, sifted
• ½ tsp baking powder
• 225g xylitol (if not available, use artificial sweetener)
• 2 lemons, zest only
• 2 large eggs, at room temperature
• 125ml sunflower oil
• 1 tbsp milk
• 200g 0% fat Greek yoghurt

For the drizzle

• 1 lemon, juice only
• 50g xylitol

Method

1. Heat the oven to 180°C (160°C for fan-assisted ovens) or Gas Mark 4. Grease and line a loaf tin with baking parchment. Combine the flour, baking powder, xylitol and lemon zest in a large enough bowl.
2. Mix the eggs, sunflower oil, milk and yoghurt together in a separate bowl and stir them into the flour mixture.
3. Spoon into a tin and smooth the surface. Transfer to the oven, bake on the middle shelf of the oven for 1 hour – 1 hour 10 mins. Check after 50 mins, if the cake is becoming too dark, cover loosely with foil.
4. Make the drizzle by heating the lemon juice and xylitol. Stir over a low heat until the xylitol has dissolved. Once the cake is done, take it out of the oven and pour over the drizzle.
5. Cool in the tin before removing and serving up.

 Recipe credit: BBC Good Food