Lemon Cake – Liv for Cake

Luscious lemon cake layers, home made lemon curd, with mild and fluffy frosting make this an immediate traditional that you just want in your repertoire!

Anybody else obsessive about lemon desserts?? Why are they SO good?? I swear they’re higher than another taste on the market. Chocolate cake can’t even compete.

Right now, I’m bringing you a Traditional Lemon Cake recipe. It’s a barely modified model of my Lemon Elderflower and Lemon Blueberry truffles. A scaled-down model that lets the pure lemon taste shine by. I’ve paired it why my new favourite  Ermine frosting.

My buddy Crystal has been harassing encouraging me for weeks (months?) to creating a Lemon Cake. I’ve been focussing on tutorials and cake parts this yr, nevertheless it was excessive time for a brand new cake recipe.

Bonus: I had a bunch of stuff in my freezer already (lemon curd, ermine frosting) from my tutorials, so this one was straightforward to whip collectively.

How you can Make this Lemon Cake

As you understand, I don’t like to make use of synthetic flavoring or extracts if I may help it. This recipe makes use of solely recent squeezed lemon juice and lemon zest for the flavour within the cake layers and the lemon curd. It’s actually the one technique to go!

You’ll want about 2-3 lemons complete to make the cake & lemon curd.

It is a easy butter cake consisting of:

• all-purpose flour (cake flour is okay)
• baking powder
• salt
• unsalted butter
• granulated sugar
• lemon zest
• giant eggs 
• vanilla
• milk (any milk will work)
• lemon juice

You should utilize common lemons or Meyer lemons (a favorite). I couldn’t discover any so common lemons it was. 

This lemon cake makes use of a normal creaming methodology. Be certain to throw that zest proper in there with the butter and sugar whenever you’re creaming them. It should assist launch all of that scrumptious taste from the zest. 

This cake batter is SO good. I can’t suggest consuming cake batter as a result of it’s not food-safe and may very well be harmful however omg I couldn’t resist.

It’s simply as scrumptious in baked kind although!

Selfmade Lemon Curd

Selfmade lemon curd is without doubt one of the greatest issues ever. Positive, you possibly can simply purchase it as an alternative, nevertheless it’s really easy and satisfying to make that you just actually don’t must.

I’ve an in depth tutorial on How you can Make Lemon Curd, nevertheless it actually could be very easy. You’ll be able to truly make this with any citrus fruit or berries. There are many prospects. Key lime curd is a few of my favourite.

Ermine Frosting

For the buttercream, I selected to pair the cake with a easy, vanilla frosting in order that the lemon would stand out (and I had a batch of ermine frosting sitting in my freezer from my publish a few weeks in the past). 

This frosting is softer and harder to work with than a Swiss meringue buttercream or an American buttercream, nevertheless it’s very straightforward to make, and I discover it simpler to work with than a cream cheese frosting.

Any frosting you select although will likely be a scrumptious accompaniment to this cake.

I embellished the cake with some easy recent lemon slices alongside the underside, rosette dollops piped with a 1M piping tip, and a few recent lemon curd and zest.

Easy and scrumptious. The perfect mixture. Ryan, who’s not a fan of fruit desserts, was less-than-thrilled that the majority of this cake went to Crystal and her household. And tbh, I remorse giving a lot away too. Hah. I see one other lemon cake within the close to future.

I hope you like this cake as a lot as we do. Let me know in the event you strive it!