Lollipop cake

Lollipop cake

Fab, fun easy-to-make birthday cake - decorate with your little ones' favourite treats

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Cuts into 12-16 slices

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 1½ hours

Freezable

Freeze cake only

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3. Butter and line the bottom of a 20cm round cake tin. Put all the cake ingredients in a large bowl and beat for about 2 mins until smooth. Bake for about 50-60 mins, or until risen and springy to the touch. Leave to cool briefly in the tin, then turn the cake out and cool on a wire rack. If the cake peaks a bit, slice off the top to level it.
  2. For the filling, cut the cake in half and sandwich back together with the lemon curd. Brush the top of the cake with a little more lemon curd. Roll out the icing and cut into a 20cm round. Carefully place on top of the cake, press down gently, smoothing it with your hands. Stick the lollipops into the icing at different levels, and the appropriate number of candles, then scatter on some jelly sweets or Smarties. The cake will keep in an airtight container in a cool place for up to 3 days.

Per slice (for 16)

353 kcalories, protein 4.0g, carbohydrate 49.0g, fat 17.0 g, saturated fat 10.0g, fibre 0.0g, sugar 42.0g, salt 0.7 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2004.

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  • 05 July 2008

    George rated and commented on this recipe

    2 stars

    I made this for my daughter's first birthday but it was a bit of a disaster! The tin size specified in the instructions was far too small - I should have gone with my instinct and used two 20cm round tins rather than the one specified - it overflowed and was useless so I made another which was much better. However, for the amount of ingredients (6 eggs!) it wasn't that special - quite heavy, more like a maderia cake than a nice light sponge. I wouldn't make it again sadly.

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    lucii3 commented on this recipe

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  • 13 September 2011

    LauraH commented on this recipe

    Made this for my housemates birthday. I used two 8inch cake tins rather than making one cake and cutting it in half, which worked well. I also used orange zest rather than lemon. Cake was delicious, really moist and with a nice tang of citrus.

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Cuts into 12-16 slices

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 1½ hours

Freezable

Freeze cake only

Dazzling and dead simple

Ingredients

  • 280.0g butter , very well softened
  • 280.0g golden caster sugar
  • 6 medium eggs
  • 200.0g self-raising flour
  • 50.0g custard powder or cornflour
  • finely grated zest of 2 lemons or oranges
  • about 6 tbsp thick lemon curd , plus extra for brushing
  • ½ x 450g pack ready-to-use icing
  • lollipops
  • candles
  • jelly sweets or Smarties
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Per slice (for 16)

353 kcalories, protein 4.0g, carbohydrate 49.0g, fat 17.0 g, saturated fat 10.0g, fibre 0.0g, sugar 42.0g, salt 0.7 g

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