Lemon, Almond and Raspberry Cake for Carolyn's Birthday Recipe

My colleague, Carolyn, is turning 50.  This is an important milestone birthday, so I decided to make her a cake.  Carolyn follows a gluten free diet, so the cake that I chose had to fulfil this criteria.  Luckily, these days, there are many delicious gluten free cake recipes A quick Web search brought up this recipe for Lemon, Almond and Raspberry Layer Cake from The Brick Kitchen.  This recipe has been adapted from one of my favourite bakers, Jordan Rondel of The Claudia from The Brick Kitchen had created her cake as 3 x 15cm layers.  I went back to a single layer in 9" form, using half of Claudia's This cake certainly smelled devine when it came out of the oven.  To decorate it, I made half of the icing recipe, and…