Lemon Layer Cake

    Recently I've been up to my eyes with cake requests as it seems to be the month of birthdays and so on. There isn't a hope your going to have the luxury of ordering a dairy free cake from a  bakery or even contacting me in time.  So here is a recipe for one of my most demanded cakes- Lemon Layer Cake.
  
     Full of lemon citrus flavor, this fluffy layer cake decorated with a lemon icing is an ideal birthday cake for your citrus lovers.  It's also an ideal cake for easter or in finishing a summer meal. One word-YUM!

Ingredients
1 lemon
175g/6oz self-raisin flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
3 eggs
175g/6oz Pure dairy free sunflower margarine
175g/6oz caster sugar

Filling

2 eggs

75g/3oz caster sugar

1 lemon

50g/2oz pure dairy free butter

Icing

1 lemon

100g/4oz sifted icing sugar

Equipment

2  round 7in cake tins

Grater

1 glass bowl

Juicer

1 pot

1 spoon & knife

Blender/Wooden spoon

Cooking time

(1) Pre-heat the oven to 180 or 350 

(2) Grease your cake tins with Pure margarine

(3) Grate the rind of the lemon and divide it in two.

(4) Juice the halves

(5) Sift the flour and baking powder into your mixing bowl

(6) Break in the eggs and add them with the sugar and margarine

(7) Whisk everything together using your blender/ Beat everything together well with a wooden spoon.

(8) Stir in the rind and lemon juice

(9) Divide the mixture evenly in the two tins

(10)Bake for 25 mins & leave to cool on a wire rack

Now make the filling

(1) Break the eggs into a heatproof bowl and add the caster sugar

(2) Add grated rind & juice of another lemon to the bowl

(3) Add the butter to the bowl

(4) Pour some water into a pot and bring to bubbling

(5) Place the bowl into the pot

(6) Stir the mixture occasionally as it thickens

(7) When it begins to coat the back of the spoon, take it off and let it cool

Putting it all together

(1) Using a knife, spread the filling on the bottom part of the lemon cake

(2) Place the other cake on top

Icing it up!

(1) Grate a little rind from the last lemon & squeeze one half of the last lemon 

(2) Sift the icing sugar

(3) Stir in the lemon juice and mix until it resembles a glue like state

(4) Using a knife/icier ice the cake

(5) Sprinkle the rind on top

Put it in a nice fancy white plate, sing Happy B-Day

 & DIG in :)

NOTES!

You will know the cake is cooked when on pressing it in the middle it'll spring back at you.