Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, lemon cake with lemon zest cream cheese icing. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
To make icing, place cream cheese and butter in a bowl and beat with an electric mixer until smooth. Mix in confectioners' sugar; blend in vanilla extract I like the addition of lemon zest to the icing and plan to try it with other recipes. I was torn between cream cheese frosting and lemon buttercream, so I combined the two by With the mixer still running on low, add the buttermilk, lemon zest, and lemon juice and mix just until Vanilla Cream Cheese Buttercream: For a vanilla cream cheese buttercream, replace lemon juice.
Lemon Cake with Lemon Zest Cream Cheese Icing is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Lemon Cake with Lemon Zest Cream Cheese Icing is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lemon cake with lemon zest cream cheese icing using 14 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon Cake with Lemon Zest Cream Cheese Icing:
- Get 1 box favorite lemon cake mix
- Get 3/4 cup sour cream
- Take 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- Prepare 1/2 cup water
- Make ready 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- Get 3 eggs room temperature
- Take 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Get For the Frosting
- Get 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- Prepare 1/4 cup butter, softened
- Prepare 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla
- Get 3 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- Prepare 3 tbsp lemon zest
Feel free to also season with salt and pepper (or stir in cream cheese for added decadence). The flavor of lemon against cream cheese frosting cannot be beaten. In a large mixing bowl, mix butter. A mouth-watering cake with a touch of lemon, filled with lemon curd, and topped with lemon cream cheese frosting.
Instructions 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!!
It makes a beautiful cake for a birthday, spring shower, or for your Easter table and I love to serve it with a scoop of citrus sorbet with Meyer lemons. Now, I have to share with you that. 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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