Lemon Buns

These are really easy to make and are perfect to put in your lunch box or for a teatime treat.
Ingredients
4oz self raising flour
4oz butter / marg
4oz caster sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp vanilla essence
1 lemon – zest and juice
2 tbsp icing sugar

Heat the oven to 180°c. Cream the butter and sugar together until pale then add the eggs one at a time and beat together. Stir in the vanilla essence, the lemon zest and a splash of lemon juice. Sift in the flour and baking powder and fold in to the mixture.

This amount of mixture should make 12 buns. I ran out of bun cases so only made 10 but as you can see they spilled over the sides a bit! Place a dessertspoon full of mixture in each bun case, try to get them as even as you can. Bake the buns for 25 minutes or until golden brown.
When the buns have cooled you can make the icing. This is more of a sticky glaze and is meant to be quite runny. Mix the remaining lemon juice in to the icing sugar and spread a teaspoon full over the top of each bun. Now make yourself a nice cup of tea and enjoy!