Lemon cake
Lemon cakes are a type of lemon-flavored small sweet baked dessert cake, often served at feasts. They are a favorite of Sansa Stark.[1][2][3] Lord Robert Arryn also loves lemon cakes, after Alayne Stone told him they were her favorites.[4][5]
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A Game of Thrones
Lemon cakes are served in Queen Cersei Lannister's wheelhouse,[6] and at the feast for the Hand's Tourney.[1]
A Clash of Kings
Lemon cakes in the shape of roses are served at King Renly Baratheon's feast for the Melee at Bitterbridge.[7]
A Storm of Swords
Sansa Stark's love for lemon cakes is so well known that Varys informs the Tyrell party, who prepare the delicacy for her first meeting with Margaery Tyrell and her family.[2]
A Feast for Crows
At the Gates of the Moon, when Petyr Baelish tells Sansa Stark he has brought her a gift, something better than gowns or jewels, she asks him if he has brought lemons, as she has promised young Lord Robert Arryn lemon cake.[4]
A Dance with Dragons
In the House of Black and White, the kindly man gives Arya Stark a drink that is so tart, she compares it to biting into a lemon, which reminds her of a girl she once knew who loved lemon cakes.[8]
The Winds of Winter
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Petyr Baelish acquires every lemon in the Vale for a twelve-foot-tall lemon cake in the shape of the Giant's Lance for the feast before the tourney to select the Brotherhood of Winged Knights, to please Lord Robert Arryn and Alayne Stone.[5]
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Lemony lemony lemon cakes... and you can have as many as you like.[4]
—Alayne Stone, trying to coax a petulant Lord Robert Arryn to get dressed for the long descent to the Gates of the Moon
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 29, Sansa II.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 6, Sansa I.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 4, Brienne I.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 41, Alayne II.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The Winds of Winter, Alayne I
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 15, Sansa I.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 22, Catelyn II.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 64, The Ugly Little Girl.