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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
Emelia Jackson’s lemon syrup loaf cake.
EASY

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

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

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh

This layered lemon cake combines two favourite citrus recipes in one

  • Eleanor Ford
Danielle Alvarez’s double lemon cake with vanilla sugar.
EASY

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

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Triple lemon drizzle cake.
EASY

Dan Lepard’s triple lemon drizzle cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Dan Lepard
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