Name: Lemon Cake
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 9 Servings
Cuisine: American

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February 2, 2026

Life is better with cake! This Lemon Cake is the perfect sweet treat. Every bite of the soft crumb and smooth cream cheese frosting is bursting with lemon flavor. It’s moist (sorry), sweet, and perfectly tart. It’s also a sheet cake that’s baked in a square baking dish, so it’s super easy to make and assemble, meaning you can enjoy this cake today (and tomorrow, and whenever else you want it)!

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Lemon Cake

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Ingredients

WarningMilk and 5 other allergens identified

Instructions

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Cake

Preheat your oven to 350F.

Grease an 8×8 inch square cake pan with butter, then line it with parchment paper, leaving some overhang to help you get the cake out later.

Mix together the dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda) in a bowl and set aside.

To a large mixing bowl, add the sugar and the lemon zest and rub together with your fingers. This helps infuse the sugar with lemon flavor.

Using a whisk or handheld mixer, mix the butter into the sugar and lemon zest.

Mix the milk into the butter and sugar, then mix in the sour cream.

Add the eggs and mix them in until fully incorporated.

Mix in the lemon juice and vanilla.

Mix in the dry ingredients, careful not to overmix.

Pour batter into the cake pan and bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out with only a few crumbs. Remove cake from the oven and let it rest for 15 minutes.

Remove the cake from the cake pan and place on a cooling rack to cool completely.

Frosting

With a handheld mixer, beat together the frosting ingredients until smooth.

Frost the cake, then garnish with more lemon zest, if using.

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We’re Rachel & Emily Conklin (“Conks” for short), sisters, lifelong foodies, and the voices behind Cooking with Conks. We grew up in Southern California, surrounded by bold flavors, big family meals, and the kind of kitchen chaos that turns into inside jokes