lemon & lime birthday cake

[cedarblue]

i served this birthday cake at tea party yesterday and everyone loved it.

one comment "lovely light cake, whats it got in it?"
im thinking to myself, 'what hasn't it got in it!'..heh heh

one tip from me if you try it, when making the 'butter' icing for inside, after adding the juice to the marg & sugar, put the icing in the fridge for a while to firm up and then you can spread it in the middle - otherwise it may be too runny and run off the edges and pool around the cake.

[twinkle]

That looks lovely. Nice simple ingredients

[catalina]

Do you think I could make this without any of the icing, and pass if off as a sponge cake type of cake? Would that work?

[foxytina_69]

this cake sounds delicious. i would love a nice peice of cake right now

[Seaside]

That sounds yummy, cedarblue. What a great websitre, too! Thanks!

[abrennan]

I want cake

[treehugga]

I was inpired by mention of your cake so I checked out the site. What fabulous recipes and they are so simple, no hard to get ingredients or egg replacer - yey. I made the chocolate cake today from the same site and my family loved it, it was moist and decadent. My mother, who is the biggest sceptic on earth (and very anti vegan) had 2 pieces even though she is on a diet. I can't wait to try more recipes

[abrennan]

I was inpired by mention of your cake so I checked out the site. What fabulous recipes and they are so simple, no hard to get ingredients or egg replacer - yey. I made the chocolate cake today from the same site and my family loved it, it was moist and decadent. My mother, who is the biggest sceptic on earth (and very anti vegan) had 2 pieces even though she is on a diet. I can't wait to try more recipes

YAY!!!

[LittleNellColumbia]

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[Mr Flibble]

I've made a LOT of things using recipes off the net over the past 6 years in my quest to understand ingrediants available to vegans/how they interact, and as such avoid most user contributed recipe sites (vegweb like the plague) as the quality is extremely variable. Cherry's however is consistantly pretty good, and I've made quite a few from her site including this particular recipe several times a few years ago before i perfected my own sponge batter recipe. I like her cooking philosophy of not using odd/freaky ingrediants and trying to keep recipes as simple as possible (simple does NOT mean crap results/worse than elaborate if the recipe is good). I find her cakes can be a bit soggy towards the bottom if you don't cook them long enough, but if they do they improve with a day or 2 in a tin to dry out a bit.

[Cherry]

Cedarblue, you have a very good point about the icing. I made it with my niece recently and we couldn't get the butter icing to taste lemony enough, so we added extra lemon juice. Fatal (OK, not a good idea) when you have run out of icing sugar! It ran everywhere!

I find her cakes can be a bit soggy towards the bottom if you don't cook them long enough

Why don't you just cook them for long enough then

Actually, I admit, my cooking instructions are absolutely rubbish because my oven isn't very accurate with temperatures, and it doesn't help that I usually forget to time things. I prefer the 'cook until cooked' approach!

[Mr Flibble]

Why don't you just cook them for long enough then

I cook cake till it starts to brown on top and a skewer comes out clean. However, if the oven is too hot this can happen when the bottom is still too moist, despite passing the skewer test. It does help massively if you have a spring form tin thou (which I now do and wonder why non springform tins even exist) because you can get it out without loosing some of the bottom, then put it on a wire rack afterwards to dry out as it cools

[Cherry]

I use springform tins. Actually my sandwich tins just have loose bottoms and no spring, but they work well.

I almost ALWAYS do cake in an oblong (why isn't there an equivalent to rectangular? Oblongular!?) tin so the mixture is quite spead out and I use that non-stick magic carpet stuff which is brilliant.

[Tigerlily]

Mmmm, I want to try that cake. Mmmmmm! But what does sieve mean?

[Cherry]

Can't remember how I used it...

As a verb it should really be 'sift' but I don't like the word so may have said 'sieve'. As a noun it's the silvery mesh thing that you put the flour/icing sugar through to get rid of the lumps.

[Lily]

WOW!!! I can't wait to try that cake. It looks absolutely scrummy . Thankyou Cedarblue for posting the link.