Luscious Layered Lemon Cake Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

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1. Mixing the ingredients

To get started, Paul shows you how to mix and measure the ingredients.

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2. Making the Lemon curd

Paul guides you how to make the delicious lemon filling.

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3. Making the biscuit base

Create a delicious and sturdy biscuit base.

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4. Making the buttercream

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5. Making meringues

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6. Stacking and layering

Learn how to stack and layer the cake.

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7. Applying the buttercream

Learn how to apply the delicious buttercream to layer and stack the cake.

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8. Finishing Touches

Transferring the cake and applying the finishing touches.

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Luscious Layered Lemon  cake tutorial by Paul Bradford

Create this delicious lemon cake the easy way! This cake is great for texture, taste and stature.

 

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Cake

  • 300g unsalted butter
  • 525g self rising flour
  • 525g castor sugar
  • 6 medium eggs (whisked)
  • 150ml full fat milk
  • 4 grated medium sized lemons
  • Juice of 1 lemon
  • 3tsp baking powder

Oven at  135°C for 1 hour and 10 minutes

Lemon curd

  • 200g salted butter
  • 200g white castor sugar
  • 500ml lemon juice (15 medium lemons)
  • Zest of 4 lemons 
  • 4 tbsp cornflour
  • 4 tbsp cold water
  • 200g condensed milk

Biscuit base

  • 200g digestive biscuits
  • 175g ginger biscuits
  • 150g unsalted butter
  • 2 tbsp demerara sugar

Lemon buttercream

  • 500g unsalted butter 
  • 500g full fat Philadelphia cheese
  • 2kg icing sugar 
  • Zest of 4 lemons
  • Juice of 1 lemon

Meringues

  • 4 medium egg whites
  • 250g castor sugar
  • 1 tsp cornflour
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence

In the oven at 150°C for 25 minutes

  • Lemon Ice Lustre Dust by Sugarflair
  • Canary Yellow by Fractal Colours 
  • Bling Bling Gold by Magic Colours
  • Mixer (Whisk and beater)
  • Oven
  • 3 x 6” cake tins
  • 3 x cake collars
  • Mixing bowl
  • Jugs
  • Plastic scraper
  • Palette knife
  • Sieve
  • Hot plate
  • Thick based pan
  • 2 x 6” round cake tins (biscuit base)
  • 1m star nozzle
  • Disposable piping bag
  • Baking trays
  • Turntable
Paul Bradford

Paul Bradford

Paul Bradford´s mission is to ‘Empower people to achieve their cake decorating dreams’ by providing a range of cake decorating courses and online tutorials through their website, which currently teaches 195,000+ students.  

Comments

  1. Rhi an non

    I am wondering how long would it take to do this cake with the baking and going cool and the piping etc. it’s hard to guess. Plus how long will it last for please

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    • David Brice

      Hi Rhi, if you have all your ingredients weighed and to hand, your oven is up to baking temperature then the bake will take around 2 hours. 2 hours for cooling and 2 hours for decorations.
      These are approximate and during the bake and cooling you have plenty of time to get on with other things.

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  2. Rhi an non

    Thank you. Would I be able to do this on a friday and it keep good for Sunday please

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