You don't have to opt for chocolate to satisfy that sweet tooth of yours. In fact, this Lemon Polenta Cake will give you as good a sugar hit and it's gluten-free. So why not take a leaf out of Ali Honour's book, or should we say take a recipe out of her collection, and get baking? We're certainly going to!                                                                                               Ingredients: 450g caster sugar 450g butter 225g polenta 450g ground almonds 6 eggs 2 tsp vanilla extract Juice of 1 lemon Zest of 4 lemons 1 tbsp baking powder   Method: 1. Preheat oven to 170C/ gas mark 3/ 325f. Butter and flour a 30-cm round cake tin. 2. Beat the butter and sugar until smooth, pale and fluffy. Then stir in the ground almonds and vanilla. 3. Beat in the eggs before folding in the lemon juice, lemon zest, polenta and baking powder. 4. Spoon into your prepared cake tin using a spatula. (You don't want to leave any... except maybe a bit to lick off!) 5. Bake for 40 minutes and then leave to cool. You can enjoy the cake as is or make a sugar and lemon juice syrup to pour over the top while hot (like a lemon drizzle). Bake Fest Galway 2014, a two day national baking festival, is returning to Leisureland Galway on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th October. Bake Fest 2014 is a not for profit organisation and all proceeds will go to Ireland’s national meningitis support and awareness charity ACT for Meningitis.