When Life Gives You Lemons
When life gives you lemons... make lemon swiss roll.
Make buttericing by mixing icing sugar and butter using an electric whisk. Use the buttericing and lemon curd to make your filling, and roll the sponge back up. It's that simple, and definitely worth it if you love a lemon cake!
I will definitely be trying this again with an alternative flavour!
This lemon swiss roll makes a change to baking cupcakes or your standard lemon drizzle. For the recipe, I followed The Hairy Bikers (click here for full details and step by step details). Instead of making it a simple lemon sponge, why not make it decorative.
Before you start Step 8, separate a small amount of the mixture into a bowl and add food colouring of your choice and mix well. Fold it in to make sure you don't lose any of the air as it needs to be light and fluffy.
Put this into a piping bag and pipe your desired pattern onto the tray like so:
This needs to go in the oven for about 1/2 minutes (possibly less) to cook it enough that it won't spread. Take it out and spread the remaining mixture evenly over the top and place back in the oven for 10 minutes.
Be careful, it's best to take it out too early than too late because if it is overcooked you won't be able to roll the sponge.
To make lemon curd you'll need eggs, sugar, lemon zest, lemon juice and butter. Most recipes are very straight forward so I just used a trusty BBC Good Food one.
Make buttericing by mixing icing sugar and butter using an electric whisk. Use the buttericing and lemon curd to make your filling, and roll the sponge back up. It's that simple, and definitely worth it if you love a lemon cake!
I will definitely be trying this again with an alternative flavour!
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