syruppy lemon cake trifle

One of those Nigella wow-ers. This is her lemon syrup loaf cake, sliced up (with double syrup to drench the cake), fresh raspberries on top and then a lime syllabub poured over, topped with toasted almonds. Lovely. Just found the syllabub a bit too bitter with the lime zest.

it's tennis season : wimbledon cake

This is a great little recipe, again from Mary Berry : Wimbledon Cake. I'd never baked with semolina before, but it's simple enough and produces a very very light cake (you fold the egg yolks, sugar and semolina into the stiffly beaten egg whites). I decided to engineer a cupcake version for easier consumption. It worked. Quite delish in the hot weather.