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Lemon Cake
Recipe For Easter: A Layered, Creamy Dessert For Festive Celebrations

75 mins
Cooking Time
Intermediate
Difficulty
17
Ingredients
Veg + Egg
Diet
Lemon cake is a moist, creamy, and festive dessert loved during celebrations like Easter or Christmas. Made from all-purpose flour, eggs, lemon (juice and zest) and other basic baking ingredients, the lemon cake is a sweet and tangy treat that lights up any and every celebration. With its bright, citrusy flavours, lemon cake remains a popular Easter dessert, ideal for welcoming warmer weather after winter, often featuring in, or as, a centrepiece for gatherings. There are three main types of lemon cake: bundt cakes, drizzle cakes, and layered cakes, which are frequently garnished with icing, zest, or candies. This lemon cake recipe is for a more festive-style bake, with three layers and frosting. However, if you just want to know how to make lemon cake but don’t want something too complicated, stick to a single layer or skip the frosting completely. Lemon cake is one of those desserts that stores well in the fridge and is not overtly complicated (requires patience, not special equipment). It also helps that this one is a bona fide crowd-pleaser, because it’s moist, tender crumb cuts through the sweetness, making for a beautifully layered dessert. So this Easter, grab your baking pans and mixers, measure out your ingredients, and let the citrusy scent of lemon and the warmth of a freshly baked cake envelop your kitchen (and home).

Ingredients

UNITSIngredients
For the cake:
350 gAll-purpose flour
2 ½ tspBaking powder
½ tspBaking soda
½ tspSalt
225 gUnsalted butter, softened
350 gGranulated sugar
3Eggs, large
2 tspVanilla extra
1 cupWhole milk
1 heapingLemon zest (about 2 lemons)
⅓ cupFresh lemon juice (about 2 lemons)
For the buttercream frosting:
225 gUnsalted butter, softened
226 gCream cheese (block), softened
540 gConfectioners’ sugar
2 tbspFresh lemon juice
1 tspVanilla extra
a pinchSalt

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Directions

Description - Step 1

Prep the equipment

Preheat the oven to 177°C. Now, grease cake pans and line them with round parchment papers. Then, grease the papers too. This helps release the cake seamlessly from the pans.

Step 1
Prep the equipment
5 Minutes
Step 2
Mix the dry ingredients
8 Minutes
Step 3
Make the batter
6-8 Minutes
Step 4
Bake the cakes
26 Minutes + cooling

FAQs

Your lemon cake can turn dry if it is overbaked. To avoid overbaking, check for doneness early using a toothpick. Also, using only lemon juice instead of zest limits oil-based flavour and moisture.