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Lemon Cake
This lemon cake with lemon curd and cream cheese frosting is a soft, single-layer lemon cake made with fresh lemon juice, lemon zest, and sour cream for a moist and tender crumb. It’s topped with tangy, luxurious lemon cream cheese frosting and finished with a swirl of lemon curd for bright citrus flavor in every bite.
Ingredients
Cake
Cream Cheese Frosting
Lemon Curd Swirl
Instructions
Cake
- Step 1
Preheat your oven to 350°F. Grease a 9 inch round cake pan with butter, then line the bottom with parchment paper.
- Step 2
Mix together the dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda) in a bowl and set aside.
- Step 3
To a large mixing bowl, add the sugar and the lemon zest and rub together with your fingers to infuse the sugar with lemon flavor.
- Step 4
Using a whisk or handheld mixer, mix the melted butter into the sugar and lemon zest, then mix in the milk and sour cream, then the eggs, lemon juice, and vanilla.
- Step 5
Mix in the dry ingredients until just combined. Be careful not to overmix or it’ll make your cake gummy.
- Step 6
Pour the batter into the cake pan and bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out with only a few crumbs. Remove the cake from the oven, let it rest for a few minutes, then take it out of the pan and place on a cooling rack to cool completely.
- Step 7
For the frosting, beat together the cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar, and lemon zest with a handheld mixer until smooth.
- Step 8
Once the cake has fully cooled, frost the top of the cake, then dollop on spoonfuls of lemon curd on top of the frosting and swirl them in.
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