Lemon Celebration Cake!

Step 1

Grease & line two 8"/20cm deep cake tins and preheat your oven to 180ºC/160ºC fan.

Step 2

Beat together the unsalted butter & caster sugar until smooth - this will take a couples of minutes!

Step 3

Once combined add the self raising flour, eggs, lemon zest and lemon juice and beat until combined - try not to over beat!

Step 4

Pour the mixture evenly into the two tins and bake in the oven for 35-40 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.

Step 5

Once baked, leave the cakes to cool for 10 minutes in the tin.

Step 6

After your 10 minutes, remove from the tin and leave to cool completely.

Step 7

Beat the unsalted butter for a couple of minutes using the whisk attachment with a stand mixer - doing this will make it nice and smooth!

Step 8

Once smooth, start gradually adding the icing sugar until it’s all fully mixed in.

Step 9

Add the lemon juice, and beat for about 5 minutes on a medium-high speed until super light and whipped.

Step 10

Pipe some buttercream in a circle round the edge of the top of your first sponge, and then add the lemon curd into the middle.

Step 11

Place the other cake on top, and pipe on the rest of the buttercream however you wish.

Step 12

Drizzle on some spare lemon curd, and add some sprinkles and enjoy!