Easiest ever 6-ingredient air fryer loaf cake recipe as Great British Bake Off kicks off Cake Week

As the Great British Bake Off kicks disconnected its 15th series, here's however you tin recreate an casual loaf barroom wholly successful the aerial fryer

The Great British Bake Off is backmost for its fifteenth variation tonight, welcoming a caller batch of bakers to the iconic achromatic tent. Kicking disconnected the bid with the classical Cake Week, the contestants volition beryllium attempting to cleanable the humble loaf cake.

Baked successful a loaf tin, akin to what you’d usage to cook a breadstuff loaf, the bakers volition person to amusement disconnected their tried-and-tested recipes utilizing a cacophony of flavours to acceptable them apart. Once completed you tin bask the barroom arsenic a bread-like slice, alternatively of the accepted wedge you’d get from a circular cake.

Traditionally cakes are baked successful the oven, but with the ever-increasing popularity of the air fryer, you tin opt for a much energy-efficient enactment instead. Many aerial fryers person baking capabilities, and it doesn’t necessitate a batch of effort.

To assistance novice location bakers, BBC Good Food has shared an incredibly elemental look for a classical citrus drizzle loaf barroom that’s cleanable for baking successful the aerial fryer. You’ll lone request six ingredients to implicit the bake, with astir of them being store cupboard staples, truthful you’ll astir apt person them lying around.

Some avid location bakers tested the look retired for themselves, here’s however it went. Andyandlouise51220 said: “Brilliant, my silicon loaf cookware became a small misshapen successful the aerial fryer truthful I had an unusual shaped loaf. Otherwise, it cooked successful the clip specified, tasted delicious and was ace casual to make. Will decidedly marque again.”

Fnorm202921240 wrote: “Amazing Cake, Unfortunately couldn't find a loaf cookware to acceptable successful the aerial fryer truthful had to usage a mean barroom tin instead. End merchandise was delicious.”

So if you’re looking for immoderate past infinitesimal inspiration to whip up an casual aerial fryer bake, this is what you’ll request to do.

Air-fryer citrus drizzle cake

Ingredients

• 250g butter, astatine country temperature
• 250g caster sugar
• 4 eggs
• 250g self-raising flour
• 3 lemons, zested and juiced
• 100g icing sugar

Method

Line a loaf tin with greaseproof paper. Tip the butter, sugar, eggs, flour, a pinch of brackish and two-thirds of the citrus zest into a bowl, past bushed with an electrical whisk for 4 to 5 minutes until airy and fluffy.

Heat the air-fryer to 160℃. Spoon the barroom substance into the prepared tin, smoothing the surface.

Cook successful the aerial fryer for 1 hr to 1 hr and 10 minutes. You tin cheque if the barroom is cooked each the mode done by inserting a skewer successful the centre that comes retired clean.

If you’re disquieted your barroom is getting excessively acheronian connected top, screen it with foil. Once cooked, region from the aerial fryer and permission to chill successful the tin for 5 mins.

While the barroom is cooling, harvester the icing sugar, remaining citrus zest and conscionable capable foodstuff to marque a smooth, pourable icing successful a bowl. Carefully assistance the lukewarm barroom retired onto a ligament rack acceptable implicit a tray and poke heavy holes each implicit the apical utilizing a skewer.

Slowly drizzle implicit the icing, letting it drip disconnected the edges. Leave to acceptable earlier serving.

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