Not your ordinary rainbow cake, this lemon sponge with fresh fruit decoration is perfect for a children’s birthday party or just to brighten up a rainy day
This colourful cake looks spectacular but is very simple to make. You can use a ring-shaped savarin tin to bake the cake, but I quite like the DIY approach of putting an empty golden syrup tin inside a round cake tin – a pot of gold in more ways than one. Either way, with its clouds of cream and rows of glistening, lemon-glazed fruit, this bake will rain’ supreme!
Makes a 23cm cake
Serves 6–8
Ingredients
For the cake
I also like to present the finished cake on a slate board that is dusted with icing sugar clouds, made by sifting icing sugar over a cloud stencil (use the cloud template shape on p.213 to cut a stencil from a sheet of card). To add to the display, fill a golden syrup tin with lemon drops and gold chocolate coins and put it at the end of the rainbow cake to represent the pot of gold.
Extract taken from Quinntessential Baking by Frances Quinn (Bloomsbury £25.00)
Photography © Georgia Glynn Smith
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