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lemon raspberry sponge cake

Lemon Raspberry Sponge Cake

This vegan lemon raspberry sponge cake recipe is so refreshing yet lovely and sweet too. The raspberry jam also adds extra zing! Any leftover cake mix can be used to make doughnut cakes/muffins.

Course Dessert
Cuisine british, Vegan
Keyword cake recipes, lemon cake, vegan cake
Servings 8 people

Ingredients

For the Cake

  • 500 g plain flour
  • 50 g coconut sugar (or 100g brown sugar)
  • 250 g caster sugar
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp bicarbonate soda
  • 1.5 tbsp lemon zest
  • 150 g coconut oil, melted
  • 250 ml soya milk
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 tsp lemon extract
  • 4-5 tbsp lemon juice (roughly 1 small lemon)
  • 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
  • 75 g raspberries, roughly ½ punnet

For the frosting

  • 70 g dairy-free butter
  • 350 g icing sugar
  • 2 tsp lemon extract
  • 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1.5 tsp lemon zest

For the filling

  • 5 tbsp raspberry jam

For decoration

  • 1 handful raspberries
  • red velvet dusting, or lemon zest

Instructions

For the sponge cake

  1. Preheat oven to 180° and line x2 8" cake tins or 7" cake tins (if you want to have some leftover mix to make doughnuts/muffins etc)

  2. In a large bowl, pour the flour, sugars, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt into a bowl and stir to combine

  3. In a separate bowl, pour the melted coconut oil, milk, vanilla extract, lemon extract, lemon juice, lemon zest and vinegar into a separate bowl and mix together. If the coconut oil starts to solidify, microwave the mix for 10 seconds

  4. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and fold with a spatula (careful not to overmix). Then carefully stir through the raspberries.

  5. Divide the batter between the two cake tins (if using a 7" cake dish see notes above on doughnut suggestion)

  6. Put the tins in the oven and bake for 25-30 minutes until golden, well risen and a skewer comes out clean. Transfer the cakes on a cooling rack.

For the frosting

  1. Put the dairy-free butter a bowl and beat until smooth. Gradually add the icing sugar while continuing to beat the butter | Once all the icing sugar is mixed in, add the lemon zest and lemon/vanilla extract | Put the bowl in the fridge to chill.

  2. When you’re ready to serve the cake (and the cakes have completely cooled), take the buttercream out of the fridge.

    Use a knife to carefully level out one of the cakes so that the other one will sit correctly on it (i.e. make one of the cakes flat). Spread some of the butter cream on top of the bottom flat cake and even out with a rounded knife | Spoon the jam over the cream | Place the second cake on top and top with the leftover buttercream | Decorate with raspberries and red velvet dusting | Enjoy!