Lemon Curd Cake with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting – A mouth-watering cake with a touch of lemon, filled with lemon curd, and topped with lemon cream cheese frosting.
A mouth-watering cake with a touch of lemon, filled with lemon curd, and topped with lemon cream cheese frosting. It makes a beautiful cake for a birthday, spring shower, or for your Easter table and I love to serve it with a scoop of citrus sorbet with Meyer lemons.
Now, I have to share with you that this cake tastes so much better than my sad photography skills could possibly convey. For some reason yesterday, my camera and I just weren’t in sync. Not that we are much any other day, but it was at it’s worst yesterday.
But the cake, well, it’s a slice of summertime.
Lemon Curd Cake with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/4 cups buttermilk
- 1 lemon
- 2 cups lemon curd
- cream cheese frosting
Instructions
- Butter and flour two 9″ round cake pans. Preheat oven to 350º.
- Cream butter until fluffy.
- Add sugar and cream until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each.
- Add flour and baking powder alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with buttermilk.
- Add zest and juice of 1 lemon to batter and combine well.
- Pour into pans and bake until golden brown, about 25 to 30 minutes. You can follow my tips for how to tell when your cake is done.
- Remove from oven and place on cooling racks until fully cooled.
- Spread 3/4 of lemon curd between two layers of cake.
- Mix remaining lemon curd into cream cheese frosting.and decorate cake.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Enjoy!
Hello, greetings from Ecuador.
I have made a couple of your recipes and love them, I intend to make this one, but is it possible to bake the whole batter in a single pan? If so, how many minutes and will the results be the same as if baked in 2?
Shirley, I haven’t made this cake in one pan. I think you should be able to make the cake in a 9×13 pan and bake for 30-35 minutes. It won’t be the same since you can’t put the lemon curd between layers.