Bake off #2

Weightwatchers Lemon Curd Sponge

Last night we tried out a weightwatchers lemon curd sponge recipe, and it was delicious! It was so simple to make.

To make the base we whisked 3 eggs with 100g caster sugar before mixing in 100g flour - a pretty standard cake sponge mixture. However this was supposed to make two separate bases to put together but the mixture didn't seem to want to go that far - perhaps we didn't mix it for long enough but we ended up having to go through the recipe twice with double the ingredients to get our two bases.


Not much of a cake!

 

So this automatically doubled the points+ to 10 per piece instead of 5.

 

Each base only took 9 minutes in the oven until they were golden brown, and then it was on with the lemon curd and soft cheese mixture - I don't like that every weightwatchers cake recipe includes using soft cheese for the icing as sometimes it tastes far too cheesy, so I was a bit skeptical about how it would turn out.

 

 

Into a mixing bowl went the soft cheese, lemon zest and icing sugar (we added more icing sugar in because of our worry about having a cheese-tasting cake) before it was spread over the bottom sponge base and then covered in lemon curd - yum.

 

We added the rest of the mixture to the top of the cake and ignored the recipe's suggestion for adding lemon slices on top - we opted for mini eggs - it is nearly Easter after all and we just couldn't resist.

 

 

And voila, the easiest most yum Easter lemon curd cake in the world. DC and I polished the rest of it off last night and it tasted even better the day after. Sometimes there's nothing better than a simple sponge cake!

 

Dans