Hiroshima Lemon Cake

Lemon Cake from a handmade cake shop

“Hiroshima Lemon Cake” is made by “Angel” a cake shop in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture. It is a perfectly round lemon cake carefully made as only a handmade cake shop can make it. Many confectioners in the city make their own sweets using lemon, a specialty of Hiroshima, and all of them are interesting in their own way.

The spherical sponge cake is coated with lemon chocolate. As expected of a handmade cake shop, skilled artisans seem to bake and finish the cake dough carefully one by one.

When break it in half, you will be amazed at how beautifully the cake turns out. The sponge cake is beautifully round like the moon, but the whole baked product is well-balanced.

The cake portion is moist and fine sponge dough, with a subtly sweet and sour lemon chocolate coating around it, making one piece quite satisfying. This cake shows the high quality of Hiroshima lemons and the skill of a skilled cake baker.