Saffron clotted cream cake

This is my take on another delicious Dan Lepard recipe. It was originally in the Guardian, but a slightly tweaked version is available here on his site.

It’s a lemony sponge, filled with lemon curd, and topped with an icing made with clotted cream. Can’t say fairer than that.

I probably should have cut the top off the lower sponge to make for a prettier cross-section, but I kinda like the crust…

(Thanks to Fran for the photo – taken on the fifth floor of in no less a venue than Freston Tower, an Elizabethan folly or lookout beside the Orwell Estuary in Suffolk.)