Lemon Glazed Layer Cake | Vi Circular Cake Pan Restocked

Lemon Glazed Layer Cake

There is a petty cafe hither inwards town that nosotros become every sun afterward Church for brunch called Cafe Europa. It is locally famous for the Lemon Cake, a layered lemon cake, alongside buttercream inwards the middle too and then drizzled alongside a lemon glaze. The combination of butter cream + glaze + addition dense cake + lemony goodness is only amazing. In fact, a brace of weeks agone I was out alongside a large grouping of girls for dinner inwards i spot, too then nosotros all concluded that nosotros should alter venues for dessert - only for this cake.

The Lemon Cake at Cafe Europa is quite large (and the pieces are really generous, give cheers goodness). A cake that size around our solid is dangerous. I made my version inwards a 6" Round Cake Pan ($6) that is a novel improver to the store (that was only restocked!!). This powerfulness last an strange "essential" size, but I discovery that this is the cake pan I accomplish for over too over. We don't direct keep besides many occasions that nosotros withdraw a huge layer cake for... but nosotros e'er direct keep an occasion for a petty i : ) It's called Tuesday night. Or sun afternoon.

This 6" cake is only the correct size for vi generous slices, or 8 smallish slices.

Lemon Layer Cake

1 stick of butter, softened
1 loving cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 loving cup milk

2 lemons, zested & juiced
1 teaspoon vanilla

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4 tablespoons of butter

1 1/2 cups of powdered sugar

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1 lemon, zested too juiced

1 1/2 loving cup of powdered sugar

Preheat oven to 350.

In a mixer fitted alongside the paddle attachment. Cream together butter too saccharide for iii minutes. Add eggs. In a split bowl, combine flour, baking powder, soda too salt. In some other split bowl, combine milk, lemon juice, zest too vanilla. Add one-half of the moisture ingredients to the butter saccharide mixture, mix for v seconds, too then add together one-half of the dry out too mix for v seconds. Repeat alongside 2nd half, ending alongside dry out ingredients. Pour batter into 6" or 8" cake pan - I similar to work mine alongside parchment newspaper (as noted below). Bake for 30-35 minutes until a cake tester comes out clean.

For the buttercream filling, inwards a mixer fitted alongside the whisk attachment, whip together butter too powdered saccharide for v minutes.

For glaze, mix together powdered saccharide too lemon juice until smooth. Pour over slightly warm cake. Top alongside lemon zest.

I'm obsessed alongside parchment newspaper sheets. Once y'all kickoff baking alongside them, y'all volition never become dorsum to buttering too flouring a pan again. Here, I traced the bottom round, cutting it out, too then I cutting strips of to become around the sides of the pan.

I piece of work a petty smudge of butter to concord the newspaper inwards identify earlier I pour the batter in.

I similar to brand the parchment newspaper sides become upwards farther than the pan inwards instance inwards would desire to tumble over - a petty protection. Then, I identify the pan on a Small Baking Sheet, also lined alongside Parchment Paper (that I cutting inwards half). This way, if at that topographic point is whatsoever spilling over, at that topographic point volition last no burning on the bottom of the oven... too no pan scrubbing.

It powerfulness audio similar a petty work, but at that topographic point is a argue professionals piece of work these methods. It guarantees the cake comes out perfectly build clean too makes clean-up thence much easier.

You tin encounter how easily the cake lifts out of the pan alongside the Parchment Paper.

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I direct keep a serrated knife too cutting the cake into 2 layers.

This is the buttercream. After whipping for v minutes it actually transforms into something new. I also mean value a cream cheese frosting would last yummmmy for a cake similar this.