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Country Life Union Jack Cake
Country Life Union Jack Cake
By Country Life Recipes
Published on 27 March 2021
Moist lemon tray cake topped with butter icing and berries.Time and servings
40 minsTotal time
12Servings
10 minsPrep time
30 minsCooking time
Ingredients
- 155 g of country life salted, softened
- 155 g of caster sugar
- 100 g of country life spreadable
- 60 g of milk
- 180 g of self-raising flour
- 3 medium of eggs
- 150 g of fresh blueberries
- 170 g of fresh strawberries
- 1 small of lemon, zest and juice only
- 200 g of icing sugar, sifted
Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 190°C/180°C Fan/Gas Mark 5. Line oblong roasting tin (20cm x 26cm or deep 20cm cake tin) with parchment.Step 2
Place the Country Life Salted, caster sugar, eggs, flour, milk, and the zest and half the juice of your lemon into a bowl. Using an electric whisk on slow speed, blend until ingredients are combined. Increase to medium, whisk 3 minutes until mixture is a pale colour.Step 3
Spread into tin, bake for 25 – 30 minutes in centre of oven, until risen and golden in colour. Leave to cool in tin, turn out onto cooling rack, carefully remove parchment.Step 4
For topping, beat together icing sugar and Country Life Spreadable until pale in colour. Stir in the other half of your lemon juice to give a soft consistency. Spread on top of cake.Step 5
Cut strawberries in halves and quarters to form cross and diagonals, Fill in gaps with blueberries. Pin ribbon around the cake.