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Lemon Cake - with a secret Fluffy Lemon Frosting

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By recipetineats.com

Lemon Cake - with a secret Fluffy Lemon Frosting

Prep:20minCook:30min

Recipe video above. This is the Lemon Cake you make when you want to impress. 3 cake layers with a velvety, tender crumb based on my signature Vanilla Cake recipe that readers around the world have fallen in love with. Finished with a magic fluffy not-too-sweet lemon frosting (read more about it here - it also has a huge fan following!). Bonus: this cake stays perfectly fresh for 4 whole days. That's unheard of!Pressed for time? Make this quick Lemon Cake with Lemon Glaze.

Updated at: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:07:55 GMT

Nutrition balance score

Unbalanced

Glycemic Index

65

Moderate

Glycemic Load

46

High

Nutrition per serving

Calories591.3 kcal (30%)

Total Fat32.6 g (47%)

Carbs70.2 g (27%)

Sugars50.1 g (56%)

Protein6.6 g (13%)

Sodium196.9 mg (10%)

Fiber0.9 g (3%)

% Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Ingredients

12 servings

2 cupsplain all purpose flour

cake flour ok too

2 ½ teaspoonsbaking powder

large, 50 - 55g 2 oz each, at room temp

1 ½ cupscaster sugar

granulated/regular ok too

115gunsalted butter

cut into 1.5cm / 1/2” cubes

3 tspvanilla extract

the best you can afford

3 tspvegetable oil

3 Tbsplemon zest

⅓ cuplemon juice

¼ tspnatural lemon extract

lemon oil, recommended but not essential

6 ½ Tbspflour

plain/all purpose

1 ⅓ cupsmilk

full fat best, low fat ok, 0% fat no good

1 ⅓ cupscaster sugar

or granulated / ordinary

300gunsalted butter

3 tsplemon zest

4 Tbspfresh lemon juice

Instructions

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Notes

18 liked

1 disliked

Delicious

Sweet

Moist

Makes leftovers

Special occasion

Jan· last month

Cake didn't rise, I may have over mixed it. Baking powder was very active so that wasn't the problem.

natalia· last year

Special occasion

It was so moist and fluffy, my family loved it. It was my first attempt at a cake. Usually go for cookies but the photos and video really helped

Jerusha Muller· last year

Under 30 minutes

I'm reviewing to RAVE about the lemon frosting... when I found it, I was in a desperate hurry. I had a birthday cake to frost & I didn't want buttercream, but I'd run out of cream cheese... I took a wild swing with this one and it was unbelievably good. It was so, so smooth! It was also not overly sweet, but had that lemony tang... can't say enough good things. There was more than enough to frost 3 8 inch layers and it looked gorgeous - tasted even better. I'm keeping this one!

I'm reviewing to RAVE about the lemon frosting... when I found it, I was in a desperate hurry. I had a birthday cake to frost & I didn't want buttercream, but I'd run out of cream cheese... I took a wild swing with this one and it was unbelievably good. It was so, so smooth! It was also not overly sweet, but had that lemony tang... can't say enough good things. There was more than enough to frost 3 8 inch layers and it looked gorgeous - tasted even better.
I'm keeping this one!

tintinhall tintinhall· last year

Makes leftovers

Pretty decent, nice icing. Make sure you fill enough between the layers. The cake came out weird so I think I did something weird with the cake batter. I made this a while ago, and it could definitely do with some improvement!

Pretty decent, nice icing. Make sure you fill enough between the layers. The cake came out weird so I think I did something weird with the cake batter. I made this a while ago, and it could definitely do with some improvement!

Amber Dawn· last year

Birthday boy wanted chocolate frosting so skipped the lemon frosting. I may have over mixed the batter, the cakes came out rather thin.

Birthday boy wanted chocolate frosting so skipped the lemon frosting. I may have over mixed the batter, the cakes came out rather thin.

Fairouz· last year

Ended up being way thinner and barely any batter for 2 cakes also tbe icing was very thin but it tasted niced

Joseph Mathew· 2 years ago

Use 1.25 cups sugar instead of 1.5