For Abby’s birthday party I made one of the Cake Dr.’s lemon cakes and tinkered with the recipe even more on my own.
Abby loves lemon cake.
So do I.
So does Hubs.
This cake had so much lemon in it, you’d swear you should be puckering. I’ve discovered that if you are using fresh lemon juice and zest, the effect isn’t nearly at potent as you’d think. This cake was bright and refreshing without being too heavily flavored for the hot summer birthday party.
The Lemon Curd was my idea. I spread it between the layers of the nearly cooled 9” layers. I say nearly cooled because I wanted it to melt a bit and absorb into the cake itself, so the layers were still a bit warm to the touch.
I used a basic cream cheese frosting and added 2tsp of lemon juice and 1tsp of lemon zest.
It was a happy, happy cake.
Because I’m so NOT a cake decorator, I used this cool OXO tool to get lemon zest curls from 7 lemons. I spread the curls around the base of the cake and added my sparkler candles.
Yum.
Let’s look at it some more, shall we?
Isn’t that cute? I’ll explain later about the crazy way this party was thrown together…
9 comments:
I Looooove lemon cake. I will for sure make this. I also think having the curd soak in is an excellent idea. Have you ever made curd before? not hard also delicious. Thanks for sharing.
Ohhhh that looks so adorably yummy - wonderful for a grandchild's birthday. Yummmm ;)
I love lemon cake and that looks so delicious. My girl turns 9 on the 14th, the one in my beach shot. You asked for info on the photo---
focal length: 163mm
f/5.4
ISO 200
shutter 1/400
But really all I did was take the photo! I mostly shoot in Aperture priority and keep my AP number low. I like the blurry background.
PS--yes I ran Everyday Elements 'in a hurry' action on it. The other sea shots are SOOC. I'm going to enter my daughters pic in our fair in a couple of weeks. Then it is going in a frame.
What a beautiful cake! I love baking when I get the chance and try to make it a point to make my boys birthday cakes! I love Lemon!
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that lemon cakes looks so good. i'm sure my mouth would pucker a bit!
Oooh...that lemon cake looks delicious! I love the idea of spreading lemon curd between the layers.
(Here by way of Sweet Shot Tuesday)
Oooh...that lemon cake looks delicious! I love the idea of spreading lemon curd between the layers.
(Here by way of Sweet Shot Tuesday)
Oh my! My mouth is watering now. Looks yummy! Seriously.
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