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Ingredients
Bottom Tier Sponge
- 2 lemons, thin peelings of skin only
- 225 g caster sugar
- 225 g unsalted butter, soft, plus extra for greasing
- 4 medium eggs
- 225 g self-raising flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 30 g freshly squeezed lemon juice
Top Tier Sponge
- 1 lemon, thin peelings of skin only
- 170 g caster sugar
- 170 g unsalted butter, soft
- 3 medium eggs
- 170 g self-raising flour
- ¼ tsp baking powder
- 30 g freshly squeezed lemon juice
Icing
- 300 g unsalted butter, soft
- 600 g icing sugar
- 1 tsp grated lemon zest
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- teal food colouring gel (see tip)
Decoration
- edible cake decorations, sea creatures (optional)
- 400 g fondant icing, ready to roll
- teal food colouring gel
- silver edible glitter spray (optional)
- Nutrition
- per 1 slice
- Calories
- 1877.4 kJ / 448.7 kcal
- Protein
- 3.5 g
- Carbohydrates
- 56.6 g
- Fat
- 24 g
- Saturated fat
- 13.7 g
- Fiber
- 0.6 g
- Sodium
- 227.9 mg
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