Are you looking for the perfect summer cake recipe? Here is my favourite lemon drizzle sponge cake recipe which has a zesty flavour, perfect for summer. In this tutorial I add a lemon drizzle / sugar syrup to the cake which is completely optional, but adds a little more of that lemon flavour into the sponge and I finish the cake off with a white chocolate ganache which is also flavoured with lemons.
Here are the ingredients you will need:
The ingredients you will need to make this 6 inch cake are:
13oz / 368g – Self Raising Flour
12oz/ 340g – Butter
12oz/ 340g – Caster Sugar
4 eggs
2 lemons – Zest and Juice
The great thing about this recipe is you can pop all your ingredients into your mixing bowl at the same time. I then bake my cake in 2x 6 inch round cake tins for around 55 minutes on the middle shelf of a normal oven at 180 degrees Celsius (which is 356 degrees Fahrenheit or gas mark 4). I tend to use my normal oven setting for cakes as I find if I use a fan oven it tends to bake the cakes quicker on the outside so you get this hard crusty shell and the mixture is not baked all the way through. So if you are using a fan oven you might want to reduce the temperature and cook for a little longer.
For the lemon drizzle / sugar syrup (optional):
1.76oz / 50g – Caster Sugar
Juice of 1/2 lemon
2tbsp – Water
For the ganache:
600g – White Chocolate
200ml – Double Cream
Juice of 1/2 lemon
Zest of 1 lemon
Once baked this is a really moist fluffy sponge cake which is full of flavour, and one of my favourites!! If you don’t want to add more sugar to the recipe you can definitely make this without the lemon drizzle. For this cake I teamed it with a delicious white chocolate ganache which is also flavoured with lemons. By adding lemon juice to the ganache it does mean it sets a tiny bit softer than regular white chocolate ganache, but to combat this I added a little more white chocolate than I normally do.
I really hope you like this recipe and will enjoy making it yourselves. Below is a full video tutorial showing how I prepare the ingredients and bake the cake:
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Lemon Drizzle Sponge Cake Recipe
Ingredients
Ingredients for a 6inch Cake
- 368 g Self Raising Flour (13oz)
- 340 g Room Temperature Butter (12oz)
- 340 g Caster Sugar (12oz)
- 4 Eggs
- 2 Lemons (Zest and Juice)
Ingredients for the Lemon Drizzle (Sugar Syrup)
- 50 g Caster Sugar (1.7oz)
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
- 2 tbsp Water
Ingredients for the White Chocolate Ganache
- 600 g White Chocolate
- 200 ml Double Cream
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
- Zest of 1 lemon
Instructions
- Into a mixing bowl sift in the plain flour. Add the bicarbonate of soda, the ground cinnamon and the ground ginger and pop to one side.
- Into a saucepan add the butter, caster sugar, the brown sugar and the golden syrup and place this onto your hob until all the ingredients have melted together.
- You then want to add your melted ingredients to your dry ingredients in your mixing bowl. Using a wooden spoon or spatula mix this all together until it forms a dough. You can finish this off mixing it with your hands to make sure the ingredients are all combined.
- Take a piece of cling film / plastic wrap and push down your dough, coving it over. Place this into the fridge for 30 minutes.
- Whilst your dough is in the fridge you will need to print off and cut out your template pieces. You can find my template here.
- After 30 minutes take your dough out of the fridge. You can then dust your surface with a little flour and roll out your dough until its around 5mm in thickness. Then use a knife to cut out all of your shapes and place on a baking tray.
- Place your cut out shapes into a preheated oven set to 180 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes. You want the edges just to start changing colour.
- After 10 minutes you can take your shapes out of the oven to let them cool. I like to use my templates and carefully (they will be hot) cut around the template a second time, to cut off any areas that have spread in size. This will help your house fit together a little easier.
- You then have all the pieces for your gingerbread house. I like to use royal icing to stick my pieces together. Watch how to decorate your Gingerbread house in my tutorial above.
Notes
Plus why not save this tutorial for later and pin it to Pinterest
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Hi Annmarie, Firstly thank you so much for subscribing to the channel. I’m so pleased you found the website too. This recipe would definately be suitable. I used it for one of the tiers for my wedding cake. For making different sized tiers I have a converter that can help you work out how much ingredients you need for each tier. You can find it here: https://cakesbylynz.com/index.php/2021/04/how-to-convert-cake-recipes-for-any-size-tin-or-cake-pan/
Hi Annmarie, Firstly thank you so much for subscribing to the channel. I’m so pleased you found the website too. This recipe would definately be suitable. I used it for one of the tiers for my wedding cake. For making different sized tiers I have a converter that can help you work out how much ingredients you need for each tier. You can find it here: https://cakesbylynz.com/index.php/2021/04/how-to-convert-cake-recipes-for-any-size-tin-or-cake-pan/
Hi Annmarie, Firstly thank you so much for subscribing to the channel. I’m so pleased you found the website too. This recipe would definately be suitable. I used it for one of the tiers for my wedding cake. For making different sized tiers I have a converter that can help you work out how much ingredients you need for each tier. You can find it here: https://cakesbylynz.com/index.php/2021/04/how-to-convert-cake-recipes-for-any-size-tin-or-cake-pan/
Hi Annmarie, Firstly thank you so much for subscribing to the channel. I’m so pleased you found the website too. This recipe would definately be suitable. I used it for one of the tiers for my wedding cake. For making different sized tiers I have a converter that can help you work out how much ingredients you need for each tier. You can find it here: https://cakesbylynz.com/index.php/2021/04/how-to-convert-cake-recipes-for-any-size-tin-or-cake-pan/
Hi Annmarie, Firstly thank you so much for subscribing to the channel. I’m so pleased you found the website too. This recipe would definately be suitable. I used it for one of the tiers for my wedding cake. For making different sized tiers I have a converter that can help you work out how much ingredients you need for each tier. You can find it here: https://cakesbylynz.com/index.php/2021/04/how-to-convert-cake-recipes-for-any-size-tin-or-cake-pan/
Hi Annmarie, Firstly thank you so much for subscribing to the channel. I’m so pleased you found the website too. This recipe would definately be suitable. I used it for one of the tiers for my wedding cake. For making different sized tiers I have a converter that can help you work out how much ingredients you need for each tier. You can find it here: https://cakesbylynz.com/index.php/2021/04/how-to-convert-cake-recipes-for-any-size-tin-or-cake-pan/
Hi Annmarie, Firstly thank you so much for subscribing to the channel. I’m so pleased you found the website too. This recipe would definately be suitable. I used it for one of the tiers for my wedding cake. For making different sized tiers I have a converter that can help you work out how much ingredients you need for each tier. You can find it here: https://cakesbylynz.com/index.php/2021/04/how-to-convert-cake-recipes-for-any-size-tin-or-cake-pan/
Hi Annmarie, Firstly thank you so much for subscribing to the channel. I’m so pleased you found the website too. This recipe would definately be suitable. I used it for one of the tiers for my wedding cake. For making different sized tiers I have a converter that can help you work out how much ingredients you need for each tier. You can find it here: https://cakesbylynz.com/index.php/2021/04/how-to-convert-cake-recipes-for-any-size-tin-or-cake-pan/
Hi Annmarie, Firstly thank you so much for subscribing to the channel. I’m so pleased you found the website too. This recipe would definately be suitable. I used it for one of the tiers for my wedding cake. For making different sized tiers I have a converter that can help you work out how much ingredients you need for each tier. You can find it here: https://cakesbylynz.com/index.php/2021/04/how-to-convert-cake-recipes-for-any-size-tin-or-cake-pan/
Hi Annmarie, Firstly thank you so much for subscribing to the channel. I’m so pleased you found the website too. This recipe would definately be suitable. I used it for one of the tiers for my wedding cake. For making different sized tiers I have a converter that can help you work out how much ingredients you need for each tier. You can find it here: https://cakesbylynz.com/index.php/2021/04/how-to-convert-cake-recipes-for-any-size-tin-or-cake-pan/