Citrus Milk Cake

Ingredients:     1 Refined flour - 21/4cups   Baking powder - 3/4tsp   Soda bicarbonate - 1/4tsp 2 Butter   - 11/2cup 3 Powdered sugar - 2cups 4 Egg yolk - 3nos 5 Grated lemon skin - 1/2tsp   Lime juice - 2dsp 6 Warm milk - 1/2cup 7 Egg white - 4nos   Vanilla essence - 1/2tsp

Method :

Sift the first ingredients together. Sieve the powdered sugar separately.

Soften the butter and fold in powdered sugar. Add the egg yolk and mix well. Alternately add the grated lemon skin, lime juice, sifted flour and the milk slowly and mix well with a ladle.

Beat the egg white and vanilla essence together. Add this to the cake mixture. Pour the contents into a greased vessel. Bake in a preheated oven at 400^oF for 10 minutes. Then bake at 350^oF, for 35 minutes.

Cut the cake into 2 halves when it cools. Mix 2dsp powdered sugar, 1dsp butter and 1dsp cocoa powder. Spread this evenly on the sliced edge of the cake and rejoin the the two halves.

Ingredients for icing :

Dissolve sugar in water on a low flame. Add the icing sugar and stir well. Remove from fire when the solution becomes sticky. Add butter and beat well. Add the baking powder and beat again. Pour the warm icing over the cake evenly. You can also decorate the cake with chocolate icing.