Ingredients
170g/6oz soft spread or butter
170g/6oz caster sugar
200g/7oz self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
4 small eggs or 3 large eggs, lightly beaten
2 lemons, to make zest and 1 dessert spoon lemon juice
To decorate:
2 dessert spoon elderflower cordial
2 dessert spoon lemon curd
50g icing sugar
Equipment
Two 20cm/8in sandwich tins, measuring scales, mixer, zester, measuring spoons, large mixing bowl, small mixing bowl, fork, cooling tray
Method
- Pre-heat oven to 190°C/375°F/gas mark 5
- Grease cake tins, then dust with a sprinkling of caster sugar.
- Using a mixer, beat the butter, caster sugar, flour, baking powder and lightly beaten eggs until light, white and creamy.
- Add the finely grated zest of 2 lemons and 1dsp of lemon juice. Be careful not to add any extra lemon juice or this will cause the cake to crack. If the mixture is a little stiff, add water. No more than 1dsp otherwise the cake will become hard.
- Turn the mixture into the two sandwich tins and bake for 25-30 minutes. When ready the cake should be golden brown and have shrunk away from the edges.
- Cool in the tins for 2-3 minutes before turning out on to a cooling tray.
To decorate:
- Mix together the elderflower cordial and lemon curd and use to sandwich this cake together
- Serve dusted with icing sugar
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