Recipes
Lemon and Raspberry Layer Cake
What you’ll need
2 x 8” sandwich tins, buttered and lined
Ingredients
- 8 oz self raising flour
- 8 oz soft butter
- 8 oz caster sugar
- Pinch salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 4 eggs
- 1 lemon washed
Buttercream Icing
- 8 oz soft butter
- 8 oz icing sugar
- zest of 1 lemon
- Lemon juice to taste
Sugar syrup (optional)
- 150 ml water
- 150g caster sugar
Method
- Preheat oven 180C conventional or 160C fan
- Using a food mixer with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar together until pale and fluffy.
- Add the salt and vanilla.
- Then begin adding the eggs (break each egg into a little bowl first) one at a time and beat until each egg is incorporated before adding the next.
- Sift in the flour and fold in using a large metal spoon. Divide between the cake tins.
- Place in the oven and bake for 30 – 35 minutes. Do not open the oven for at least 20 minutes or you risk the cake sinking.
- When golden and springy to the touch the cake is cooked, cool on a wire rack, remove from the tins by running a knife round the edge and turning out, while still warm.
- To make the sugar syrup, heat the sugar and water in a small pan until the sugar is dissolved and bring to the boil. Then cool a little and add lemon juice to taste.
- Brush the base of the cakes with the sugar syrup mixture.
- For the icing: Put the butter and sugar and lemon zest in a mixer (use the paddle attachment), or use an electric whisk and beat until pale and fluffy, add a little lemon juice and beat again until smooth. Add the lemon juice to taste. Approximately ½ lemon. When the cake is cold cut each in half sandwich together with the buttercream icing adding a layer of jam if desired ) and put a thin layer of icing on the top and sides.
Notes
For 2 x 6” tins use a 6oz cake mix and 5oz buttercream mix.
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