Wedding cake - zingy lemon
Tier two of our three tier wedding cake, this gives a real citrus hit and the drenching of lemon syrup keeps it beautifully moist
Pick & mix lamingtons
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Cook 25 minutes per tray
- Easy
- 60 (each sponge makes 15)
Skip to ingredients
- 4 x 250g packs softened butterplus extra for greasing
- 4 x 280g/10oz self-raising flour
- 4 x 250g/9oz caster sugar
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 16 large eggs
- 4 x 150ml pots natural yogurt
- 4 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 jar of lemon curd
- 1 jar of seedless raspberry jam
- 1 jar of lime marmalade
- 4 x 140g desiccated coconut
- 131g bag of love hears and 60 x roughly 10cm squares of pretty paper
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal401
- fat23g
- saturates15g
- carbs47g
- sugars33g
- fibre2g
- protein5g
- salt0.51glow
Method
step 1
Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease and line a 20 x 30cm baking or roasting tin with baking parchment.
step 2
Beat 250g butter, 280g flour, 250g sugar, ¼ tsp baking powder, 4 eggs, a pot of yogurt and 1 tsp vanilla together with an electric whisk until lump-free. Spoon into tin and bake for 25 mins until a skewer poked in comes out clean. Repeat three more times to make 4 sponges. Cool on wire racks. Sponges can be wrapped well in cling film and frozen for up to a month.
step 3
Trim edges off each sponge, then cut each into 15 x roughly 5cm squares. Warm the lemon curd, jam and marmalade in seperate pans until runny, sieving the marmalade of its bits. Tip the coconut onto a tray. Brush each square on the top and sides with either curd, jam or marmalade – then dip into coconut. Can be made the day before and stored in airtight containers. Top with love hearts and sit on squares of coloured paper before the wedding.
