Lemon Cake

Recipe Submitted By: bakingmad

A fresh lemon cake with a delightful cream cheese topping.

Ingredients

225 grams	Allinsons Wholemeal Self Raising Flour
125 grams	Butter Cubed
125 grams	Billington's Golden Caster Sugar
2	Lemons Finely grated zest and juice
2 grams	Eggs Large sized
2 tbsp	Lemon Curd

200 grams	Cream cheese
50 grams	Butter
4 tbsp	Billington’s Golden Icing Sugar Sieved
3 tbsp	Lemon Curd

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Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan 160°C/Gas mark 4. Grease a 7 x 11inch tin.
Put the flour into a processor with the butter and blend until the mixture forms into crumbs. Add the sugar, lemon zest and juice, eggs and lemon curd and whiz again until well blended together.
Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 45 minutes until the cake is risen and firm and a cocktail stick inserted into the centre comes out clean.
Leave the cake to cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a cooling rack.
Mix together the cream cheese and butter in a processor until well combined. Add the sieved icing sugar and blend for just a few seconds.
Spread the cream cheese mixture on top of the cooled cake. Put 2 small plastic bags inside each other and spoon in the lemon curd. Twist the top and snip off a tiny corner. Gently squeeze the bag to pipe letters and a message on top of the cakes.