Prepare Ahead

Tip: Flavour cake with 1 tbsp vanilla essence or orange zest and juice instead of lemon.

Instructions

1. 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.

   
   

2. 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.

   
   

3. 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.

   
   

4. 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.

   
   

5. 5

   Cut strawberries in halves and quarters to form cross and diagonals, Fill in gaps with blueberries. Pin ribbon around the cake.

   
   

Ingredients

• 155g Country Life Salted, softened
• 100g Country Life Spreadable
• 155g caster sugar
• 3 medium eggs
• 180g self-raising flour
• 60g milk
• 1 small lemon, zest and juice only
• 200g icing sugar, sifted
• 170g fresh strawberries
• 150g fresh blueberries

Serves 12

Total time required 40 mins

• Preparation time: 10 mins
• Cooking time: 30 mins