{"id":1022,"date":"2017-08-05T14:51:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T04:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2021-01-30T09:23:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T22:23:02","slug":"lemon-cake-with-lemon-curd-filling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/05\/lemon-cake-with-lemon-curd-filling\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemon Cake with Lemon Curd filling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1005 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_5645-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_5645-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_5645-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_5645-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_5645-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>This is the most wonderful lemon cake you will ever make (and eat) it is so light and delicious and topped off with beautiful lemon curd and strawberries it is a winner.\u00a0 Not only does it taste wonderful it is a stunner in looks.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>I often make it for<\/em> <em>friends and family and it is constantly requested, along with my<a href=\"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/23\/the-best-pavlova-recipe-ever\/\"> pavlova<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/23\/the-best-pavlova-recipe-ever\/\">\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<em>as they are not heavy and I think that is an issue with most cakes, and desserts, no one wants to feel too full or bloated after enjoying a piece of cake&#8230;heaven no&#8230;room for more please!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>100g unsalted butter, softened<\/li>\n<li>165g caster sugar<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp vanilla extract<\/li>\n<li>2 eggs<\/li>\n<li>1\u00b9\u2044\u00b3 cups self raising flour<\/li>\n<li>125ml milk<\/li>\n<li>zest of 3 lemons<\/li>\n<li>Lemon curd<\/li>\n<li>Strawberries for decorating<\/li>\n<li>Icing sugar to dust on top<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Method:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Preheat the oven to 180C\u00b0 (160C\u00b0 fan forced).<\/li>\n<li>Grease a 20cm cake tin and line the base with baking paper.<\/li>\n<li>With your mixer beat the butter, sugar and vanilla until light and creamy.<\/li>\n<li>Add the eggs one at a time, beating well between additions.<\/li>\n<li>Fold through the flour and milk in two alternate batches until just combined.<\/li>\n<li>Then gently fold through the lemon zest.<\/li>\n<li>Tip the mixture into the cake tin and bake for 35-40 minutes, or until the cake springs back when touched gently in the centre.<\/li>\n<li>Remove from the oven, let cool 5 minutes in the tin, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely before decorating.<\/li>\n<li>With a sharp knife slice a circle from the top of the cake.<\/li>\n<li>Spread lemon curd inside the removed circle area.\u00a0 Decorate with halved strawberries.<\/li>\n<li>Replace circle of cake back on top.\u00a0 Dust with icing sugar.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1106 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Lemon-cake-with-lemon-curd-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Lemon-cake-with-lemon-curd-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Lemon-cake-with-lemon-curd-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Lemon-cake-with-lemon-curd-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Lemon-cake-with-lemon-curd.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Enjoy&#8230;and please leave me a comment below if you have made this and really enjoyed it as much as I do\u2665<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the most wonderful lemon cake you will ever make (and eat) it is so light and delicious and topped off with beautiful lemon curd and strawberries it is a winner.\u00a0 Not only does it taste wonderful it is a stunner in looks. I often make it for friends and family and it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-postsrecipes","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}