Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, lemon cake with lemon zest cream cheese icing. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
The combination of lemon, with lemon zest, gives the cake a clean, fresh tasting texture. Adding acid to a cake is essential to balance out the sweetness To make the icing on top look pretty, try running a skewer along the top as if you were drawing a chess board. It's an old fashioned technique I learned.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook lemon cake with lemon zest cream cheese icing using 14 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon Cake with Lemon Zest Cream Cheese Icing:
- Take 1 box favorite lemon cake mix
- Make ready 3/4 cup sour cream
- Prepare 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- Make ready 1/2 cup water
- Make ready 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- Prepare 3 eggs room temperature
- Make ready 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Take For the Frosting
- Take 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- Make ready 1/4 cup butter, softened
- Prepare 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- Take 1 tsp vanilla
- Make ready 3 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- Get 3 tbsp lemon zest
This lemon sheet cake recipe is totally homemade and completely delicious! It's super fluffy and light and perfect for spring. It's topped with cream cheese frosting On top of the cream cheese icing, I added the little candied lemon rounds from Trader Joes! Do they still have these or are they seasonal?
Steps to make Lemon Cake with Lemon Zest Cream Cheese Icing:
- Preheat oven to 350. Grease a bundt pan
- Place all cake ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Mix on medium with an electric mixer until all ingredients are combined, pour in bundt pan. Place in oven.
- For the frosting, add the butter, lemon juice and cream cheese in a large bowl. Beat with an electric mixer on medium for 2 minutes. Turn the mixer down to low gradually add the powder sugar, vanilla and lemon zest. Once combined, turn the mixer up to medium and beat for another two minutes. Spread onto cooled cake then add chocolate chips to cake and serve. Store in refrigerator for up to 5 days. Enjoy!!
Light and fluffy lemon cupcakes with lemon cream cheese frosting. These classic cupcakes are perfect for spring and summer! Here's why this recipe worked: Using all-purpose flour AND cake flour gave these that nice tender crumb. Adding lots of fresh lemon zest along with lemon juice and. The flavor of lemon against cream cheese frosting cannot be beaten.
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