California Farm Olympic Lemon ShortCake

Hobby Horseman
Hobby Horseman @HobbyHorseman
California, United States

The five rings of the Olympic flag are blue, black, red on top and gold and green on bottom. On a white background. This lemon shortcake has olympic flag desserts. The olympic rings are made with safe food coloring. The white flag is easy meringue.
Hidden Inside the cake is a 4” diameter by 1/3” thick pine apple olympic gold medal.
Kids get to choose their slice, the finder is the gold medal winner and gets a selfie.

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California Farm Olympic Lemon ShortCake

The five rings of the Olympic flag are blue, black, red on top and gold and green on bottom. On a white background. This lemon shortcake has olympic flag desserts. The olympic rings are made with safe food coloring. The white flag is easy meringue.
Hidden Inside the cake is a 4” diameter by 1/3” thick pine apple olympic gold medal.
Kids get to choose their slice, the finder is the gold medal winner and gets a selfie.

#GlobalCookpadGames2024

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Ingredients

20 minute bake, 2 hour set
6 people, 6 desserts, 4” x 4” portions
  1. For the lemon shortcake form
  2. 1 cupall-purpose Flour
  3. 1 Tspapple cider vinegar
  4. 1/2 Tspflaked seasalt
  5. 1Egg yolk, beaten. Save egg white for topping
  6. 3 Tbspowdered sugar
  7. 3 TbsButter, crumbled
  8. 3 Tbsshortening or lard, crumbled
  9. 4 Tbsice water
  10. For the lemon filling
  11. 6fresh lemons for juice. Save lemon peels to make limoncello
  12. 6Egg yolks. Save egg whites for topping
  13. 1/2 cupcane sugar
  14. 120 gramsunsalted butter
  15. 1/2 cupcorn starch
  16. 2 1/2 cupswater
  17. 2 Tbslemon peel zest
  18. For the topping
  19. 7eggwhites
  20. 1 cupcane sugar
  21. 1 cuppowdered sugar
  22. For the Olympic Rings decoration
  23. 5foodsafe colors
  24. For the winning gold medal: medal size slice of pine apple, 4”x 1/3”
  25. Optional: for Fourth of July cake, decorate with fresh blueberries and raspberries on bed of whipped cream
  26. Equipment: 12” x 8” baking pan, dough mixer, lemon press, air fryer or other convection oven, kitchen mixer whisk, cake food color kit, 3” diameter glass to make olympic circles
  27. Cost: shortcake $2, lemons $4, topping $2, food colors $1, pine apple $1, colors $1, $1.80 per dessert

Cooking Instructions

20 minute bake, 2 hour set
  1. 1

    Make the cake crust: Sift flour and sugar into bowl with vinegar, crumbled butter and shortening. Add beaten yolk and enough ice water to cling ingredients. Make ball, knead, shrinkwrap, refrigerate 30 minutes. Roll out on silicone floured cutting board. Line the baking dish. Press in place with knuckles. Bake 20 minutes at 450F degrees. Cool.

  2. 2

    Hide the pine apple olympic gold medal: divide crust in six desserts of 4” x 4”, place pine apple in one of the squares.

  3. 3

    Filling: mix corn starch and sugar, stir in lemon juice and water, stir and boil till very thick. Reduce heat, stir in lemon zest, egg yolks, butter. Pour into cake form. Cool to room temperature.

  4. 4

    Make the topping: beat egg whites with whisk on kitchen mixer, add pinch of salt and cane sugar gradually while whisking, till dissolved. Stir in powdered sugar at the end of whisking to make mix whiter. Spread on top of filling, score in six desserts, dry two to four hours at 175F degrees in oven till topping is hard.

  5. 5

    When topping has dried and is hard, use 3” diameter glass to decorate the cake with the Olympic flag rings from foodsafe coloring kit.

  6. 6

    Optional: for Fourth of July Holiday Flag cake, put layer of whipped cream on top and decorate with blueberries and raspberries.

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I teach people at the farmers market to grow small scale fruits and vegetables. My grandparents and parents taught me growing, cooking and preserving home grown fruits and vegetables, eggs, meats and fish. I got certified by the University of California Master Gardener Program in 2005. I try to bring out the original flavor of ingredients, then add layers of spices, herbs and flavorings that enhance, not distort the taste. These are the global, organic and vegan family recipes we use.
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Genna
Genna @genlato_
This is genius! Love this idea 😍

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