Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, lemon cake with lemon zest cream cheese icing. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. 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. One tip: if you always keep a lemon in the freezer you can grate off.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to 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 can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon Cake with Lemon Zest Cream Cheese Icing:
- Make ready 1 box favorite lemon cake mix
- Make ready 3/4 cup sour cream
- Take 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- Prepare 1/2 cup water
- Get 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- Prepare 3 eggs room temperature
- Make ready 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Take For the Frosting
- Make ready 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- Make ready 1/4 cup butter, softened
- Prepare 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- Get 1 tsp vanilla
- Prepare 3 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- Make ready 3 tbsp lemon zest
Adding lots of fresh lemon zest along with lemon juice and. The flavor of lemon against cream cheese frosting cannot be beaten. In a large mixing bowl, mix butter. This recipe mixes lemon zest into lightly textured cupcakes that are then topped with a tangy lemon-cream cheese frosting.
Steps 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!!
Feel free to also season with salt and pepper (or stir in cream cheese for added decadence). Grease a skillet with butter over medium heat and pour in the egg mixture. 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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