Lemon Lovers Layer Cake
By
Patsy Fowler
@hellchell1
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Ingredients
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1 1/2 ccake flour
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2 tspbaking powder
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1 tspsalt
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1 cplain greek yogurt
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1 1/3 csugar
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3 largeeggs
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2 tsplemon zest, grated
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1 tspvanilla extract
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1/4 cvegetable oil
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1/3 clemon juice, fresh
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WHIPPED LEMON CREAM CHEESE FROSTING:
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2 cheavy cream
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2 1/2 cpowdered sugar
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4 ozcream cheese, room temperature
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1 tsplemon zest plus more for garnish, optional
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1 Tbsplemon juice
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1/2 tspvanilla extract
How to Make Lemon Lovers Layer Cake
- Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour 2 round cake pans.
- In a large bowl, whisk together yogurt, 1 cup sugar, eggs, lemon zest and vanilla.
- Slowly add dry ingredients to wet mixture. Fold vegetable oil gently into batter.
- Divide batter evenly between the 2 cake pans.
- Bake for about 20 minutes , or until knife in center of cake comes out clean.
- Remove from oven and set aside for cooling.
- While your cake layers cool, bring 1/3 cup lemon juice plus remaining 1/3 cup sugar to a simmer in a small pan until the sugar dissolves and the mixture is clear.
- When your cake layers have cooled for about 10 minutes, pour lemon sugar mixture over each layer and allow it to soak in. Set aside while you make your frosting.
- In a large bowl, whip cream cheese with an electric mixer until smooth.
- In a separate bowl, whip your heavy cream until stiff peaks form.
- Add the whipped cream to your bowl of whipped cream cheese and fold gently to incorporate.
- Gently stir in lemon juice, vanilla, lemon zest and powdered sugar until smooth.
- Chill frosting for at least 30 minutes.
- Turn your cake layers out onto a cutting board and trim the sides/top as necessary to get rid of the brown bits.
- Place one layer on a serving plate/cake stand. Spread a generous amount of frosting on top.
- Lay the other cake layer on top of the frosting, and spread the rest of the frosting on top of that.
- You can frost the sides of the cake too, but it is impossible for me to do that and not make a huge mess.
- Sprinkle the top of your cake with lemon zest. Chill cake until ready to serve.