This lemon cake is briefly soaked in syrup and rolled in vanilla-lemon sugar to create a crust.

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Five zingy lemon cakes to bake this weekend

Pro tip: Follow Danielle and Emelia’s advice and use your fingertips to rub the zest into the sugar. This enhances the citrus flavour in your bakes, releasing the oils and helping to distribute the zest evenly.

5 recipes

Better baking

Emelia Jackson’s lemon syrup loaf cake

1-2 hrs
Emelia Jackson

Is it a cake? Is it a slice? Lemon 'brownies' with frozen berries. — EASY

Slice

Helen Goh’s lemon ‘brownies’ with winter (frozen) berries

30 mins - 1 hr
Helen Goh

Cookbook extracts

This layered lemon cake combines two favourite citrus recipes in one

March 15, 2024
Eleanor Ford

Danielle Alvarez’s double lemon cake with vanilla sugar. — EASY

Baking

Danielle Alvarez’s ‘lemon cake of dreams’ (double-lemon loaf cake with vanilla sugar crust)

1-2 hrs
Danielle Alvarez

Cake

Dan Lepard’s triple lemon drizzle cake

1-2 hrs
Dan Lepard

Five zingy lemon cakes to bake this weekend

Emelia Jackson’s lemon syrup loaf cake

Helen Goh’s lemon ‘brownies’ with winter (frozen) berries

This layered lemon cake combines two favourite citrus recipes in one

Danielle Alvarez’s ‘lemon cake of dreams’ (double-lemon loaf cake with vanilla sugar crust)

Dan Lepard’s triple lemon drizzle cake

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