Lemon Cake Recipe with Thyme

This Lemon cake recipe with thyme is a favourite of my sons. It's a super moist & delicious cake using lemons and thyme to create a unique flavour explosion in your mouth.

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• 🥘 Ingredients
• 💭 Recipe Tips
• 📋 Other Vegan Dessert Recipes
• Lemon Cake Recipe with Thyme

Sometimes it's the smallest changes that make the biggest difference and this lemon cake recipe is a prime example. I am so proud and in love with this vegan lemon cake recipe. It's perfect for when I want to indulge in something sweet.

My brother had a surplus of thyme in his garden, so one afternoon I decided to combine thyme with lemon to whip up a cake. The taste is magical.

At first, my brother and his partner thought 'lemon & thyme cake? that sounds interesting' but fresh out of the oven and into their mouths with zero complaints.

From then on, I started baking it for my son (cupcakes for school lunches), who, as I mentioned, adores this cake.

🥘 Ingredients

• ⅓ cup Plant spread - use something light in taste, like sunflower spread
• 1 cup Castor sugar
• 1 cup Aquafaba (this is chickpea juice, canned is fine)
• 2 cups Self raising flour
• 1 tsp Baking soda
• 1 ½ medium Lemons, juiced & rind grated Grate lemon rind before juicing ). Another couple of recipes using lemons are my rose lemonade or these sour coconut lemon balls.
• ¼ cup Plant milk or as needed
• ¼ cup Fresh thyme leaves

Frosting

• ⅓ cup Plant spread
• ½ cup Apple sauce
• ½ medium Lemon juiced
• ½ medium Lemon rind grated for garnish
• 2 ½ cups Icing sugar
• ¼ cup Fresh thyme leaves for garnish

💭 Recipe Tips

Adjust the amount of lemon juice and rind used in both the cake batter and frosting if you prefer it more or less lemony

Always use fresh thyme herb to yield a better flavour

Select your preferred cake tin, I used a muffin tray but you can use a cake tin, bunt tin etcetera

Lemon and thyme cupcakes with white lemon frosting.

📋 Other Vegan Dessert Recipes

• I recently made vegan meringue with rose water a light snack perfect for those sugar cravings.
• Vegan gluten free strawberry crisp -  a sweet, refreshing, and a deliciously simple crowd pleaser.