Lemon Cake

Lemon Cake — Three Layers, Two Sizes

Tart. Not sweet-with-a-hint-of-lemon.

This is the thing most lemon cakes get wrong. They taste like a vanilla cake wearing lemon, and after two bites you've had enough.

Ours is genuinely tart — lemon all the way through the batter — and the cream cheese buttercream is what balances it. Bright, sharp and rich at the same time, which is why it's the cake that gets finished by the people who said they weren't having dessert.

How it's built

• Three layers of tart lemon cake — lemon through the crumb, not just in the frosting
• Vanilla cream cheese buttercream — tangy and rich rather than sugary. The cream cheese is doing the work that usually gets done by a mountain of icing sugar.
• Finished with fresh lemon zest — grated over the top, so it smells like lemon before you've cut it
• Made to order, for your date — nothing sitting in a fridge waiting for a buyer

Two sizes

• 6 inch — $96 · feeds 6 to 8
• 8 inch — $144 · feeds 10 to 15

The 8-inch is the better value per person — $12–$16 a head on the 6-inch against $9.60–$14.40 on the 8-inch. Around ten people, size up.

Why it's worth the price

• Three layers, filled and stacked by hand. This is an hour of somebody's afternoon, not a mix poured into a tin — levelling, filling, stacking and frosting each one individually.
• Real lemon, real zest. Bottled lemon juice and lemon extract are the shortcuts on most lemon cakes, and you can taste the difference immediately.
• Cream cheese buttercream. Costs more in ingredients than plain buttercream and takes a firmer hand to work with, especially on a tart cake.
• It holds. Cream cheese frosting sets properly, so this cake travels and sits on a table well — unlike a whipped-cream finish.

The details

• 6 inch — $96 (feeds 6–8) · 8 inch — $144 (feeds 10–15)
• Three layers of tart lemon cake, vanilla cream cheese buttercream
• Finished with fresh lemon zest
• 3 days' notice required — this is a made-to-order cake
• Pickup Wednesday to Saturday
• Tell us your collection date, and any message for the cake, in the order note
  
• Want it personalised or printed? Email info@radicalgardens.com for a quote — we print directly onto edible surfaces, minimum twelve

Where it fits Birthdays, showers, Easter, spring occasions, and any table at the end of a rich meal where something sharp is exactly what's wanted.

Want a different flavour, or a bigger cake? We make eight signature cakes, all three-layer, from $68 — and our cheesecakes come in three sizes.

Our Bakery and Restaurant only use the very best ingredients and as much locally sourced product as possible.

We do not accept returns on perishable products, however we do take returns on non perishables like our merch line.