The Lemon Wedge
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A large lemon sponge is layered with buttercream, covered in fondant and finished with a yellow icing zigzag.
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- The cake was 8 eggs, 400g butter, 500g flour, 400g caster sugar, 8 tsp lemon juice and the rinds of 5 lemons, with a warning about grating fingers, plus 1 pack of ready-to-roll icing and yellow writing icing; the butter icing was 75g butter, plenty of icing sugar and lemon juice. All the cake ingredients were mixed together, with a touch more flour if the mixture was watery, poured into a wide, well-greased pan and cooked for 30 mins with no temperature given. The edges were cut off, the cake halved and the two sections stacked with butter icing between them for the classic shape; the icing was rolled out, cut to shape and held on top with a touch of butter icing, and the pattern was drawn with the yellow writing icing. Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3 · Source 4 · Source 5 · Source 6 · Source 7 · Source 8 · Source 9
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First make the cake recipie by adding all the above ingredients (if the mixture is too watery, add a TOUCH more flour, no one likes a dry cake)
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8 eggs
400g Butter
500g Flour
400g Caster Sugar
8 tsp Lemon Juice
Rinds of 5 Lemons (Don’t cut your fingers on the grater like I did!)
1 Pack of ready to roll icing
Yellow Writing icing
Butter icing
75g Butter
Plenty of icing sugar
Lemon juice
Steps…
First make the cake recipie by adding all the above ingredients (if the mixture is too watery, add a TOUCH more flour, no one likes a dry cake)
Pour the mixture into a wide, well greased pan and cook for 30 mins.
Once cooked, we shaped the cake by taking off the edges and finally cut it in half and stacked the two sections giving it the classic (Though some what more epic) shape
Don’t forget put the butter icing between the layers so they stay together
Roll out the icing and cut to shape and place on top of the cake, a touch of butter icing on the top the the cake will keep the icing in place
Finish off by drawing the pattern on top with the yellow writing icing!
The cake allowed us to get full of energy due to the sugar contact, hopefully it will bring you as much joy!
