Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, lemon cake with lemon zest cream cheese icing. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look 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 get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have 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:
- Get favorite lemon cake mix
- Get sour cream
- Take vegetable oil
- Prepare water
- Take mayonnaise
- Take eggs room temperature
- Get vanilla extract
- Prepare For the Frosting
- Prepare cream cheese, softened
- Make ready butter, softened
- Take powdered sugar
- Prepare vanilla
- Prepare fresh lemon juice
- Get lemon zest
The perfect cake recipe for Add sour cream, vanilla extract, lemon extract, and lemon zest and mix for one minute on high, scraping down the bowl and paddle once more. 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.
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!!
The flavor of lemon against cream cheese frosting cannot be beaten. This is a great lemony cream cheese icing. In a medium bowl, beat together the cream cheese, lemon juice, and lemon zest until well combined. Slowly add in the powdered sugar, beating until combined. Bundt cakes have always been a favorite of mine.
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