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Lemon and orange cake with cream cheese frosting
Serves:
Ingredients
For the cake
- 350g butter, softened
- 350g caster sugar
- 3 eggs
- 350g self-raising flour (Lamb Brand)
- 1 heaped tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp vanilla essence
- Zest and juice of a lemon and orange
- yellow and orange food colouring
For the vanilla frosting
- 200g cream cheese
- 200g mascarpone (Galbani)
- 100g icing sugar
- 250ml whipped cream (Benna)
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
Method
Line and grease 3 x 22cm round cake tins. To make the cake, beat together all the batter ingredients with an electric beater for 2 minutes. Divide the mixture into 3 bowls, add the vanilla essence to one, lemon zest and juice and a few drops yellow colouring to one and finally the orange zest and juice and orange colouring to the remaining. Mix together well then spread out each mixture into the prepared tins. Bake for approximately 20-25 minutes at 180`c. Meanwhile, prepare the frosting. Lightly mix together the cream cheese and mascarpone. Stir in the icing sugar and vanilla, before folding in the whipped cream. Chill for 30 minutes before using to sandwich and coat the 3 layers of the cake.
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