Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, lemon cake from scratch. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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Whisk to blend and set aside. Add the egg yolks, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. The Best Lemon Cake from Scratch is a homemade yellow cake with a luscious lemon flavor, topped with tangy lemon buttercream frosting. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lemon cake from scratch using 25 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon Cake From Scratch:
- Take For The Cake:
- Take (2 1/2) Cup Flour
- Make ready (1 1/2) Cup Sugar
- Take (1/2) Tsp Salt
- Take (2) Tsp Baking Powder
- Prepare (4) Eggs
- Prepare (1 1/4) Cup Milk
- Make ready (2) Tbsp Oil
- Make ready (1 1/2) Tsp Lemon Extract
- Prepare (1) Tbsp Lemon Zest
- Take (1 1/2) Stick Butter, Softened
- Take For The Lemon Curd:
- Take (3/4) Cup Sugar
- Prepare (1/4) Cup Cornstarch
- Make ready (1) Cup Water
- Prepare (2) Egg Yolks, Wisked
- Make ready (2) Tbsp Butter, Softened
- Get (2) Tsp Lemon Zest
- Get (4 1/2) Tbsp Lemon Juice
- Prepare For The Frosting:
- Take (2) Sticks Butter, Softened
- Make ready (16) Ozs Cream Cheese, Softened
- Make ready (2) Tsp Lemon Juice
- Prepare (1) Tsp Lemon Extract
- Prepare (2) Tsp Lemon Zest
Beat in lemon zest and juice. In a small bowl, mix sour cream and milk. In another bowl, whisk together flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda; add to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream mixture. In a large bowl cream together butter, shortening, and sugar at medium speed Beat in eggs, one at a time, mixing thoroughly between each egg. *see note Add vanilla extract and lemon extract.
Instructions to make Lemon Cake From Scratch:
- Pre Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour 2 cake pans.
- Add flour, sugar, salt and baking powder to mixing bowl. Using whisk attachment, whisk for 1 minute.
- In a another bowl whisk eggs, milk, oil, lemon extract and zest. Whisk until completely combined.
- Replace whisk on mixer with the dry ingredients with paddle attachment. Add butter slowly to the dry ingredients, mix until well incorporated.
- Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, mix until well incorporated the cake batter will be fluffy.
- Spoon half the batter into one pan, then the rest into 2nd pan. Bake for 30 minutes or until done.
- Remove cakes, let cool completely. I leave them to cool in pans you can do as you wish.
- Let's make the curd. Combine sugar, cornstarch and water, constantly whisk over medium. In the meantime have 2 egg yolks mixed in a small bowl.
- When curd starts to boil, remove from heat, pour 1/2 cup into bowl of egg yolks, whisk constantly for a few seconds then whisk back into pan with the remaining mixture. Whisk for about 30 seconds.
- Add in butter, zest and lemon juice. Whisk for another minute. Set aside to cool.
- Lets make the frosting. Whisk butter until smooth. Add the cream cheese, whisk until smooth and incorporated.
- Add the lemon juice, lemon zest and lemon extract. Whisk until smooth.
- Before building the cake, place about 1 1/2 cup of frosting into a frosting bag, using whatever tip you wish.
- Build cake, layer of frosting then curd. Place 2nd cake on top. Frost sides then top, If you want curd on top also, make a dam with frosting tip, then add curd. Decorate with remaining frosting.
- Enjoy!
In another bowl, whisk together flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda; add to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream mixture. In a large bowl cream together butter, shortening, and sugar at medium speed Beat in eggs, one at a time, mixing thoroughly between each egg. *see note Add vanilla extract and lemon extract. This moist Lemon Cake Recipe is fluffy, tangy and so easy to make from scratch! Every bite of this supremely moist pound cake is bursting with fresh lemon flavor and the easy lemon glaze on top will have you hooked after just one bite. Sift flour and baking powder together in a separate bowl; add to creamed mixture.
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