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Lemon Curd Cake with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting

Robyn Stone

Updated Sep 08, 2023

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 .

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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.

Ingredients

▢ 1 cup ( 226 g ) butter , softened
▢ 2 cups ( 396 g ) sugar
▢ 4 ( 200 g ) eggs
▢ 3 cups ( 360 g ) all-purpose flour
▢ 3 teaspoons ( 12 g ) baking powder
▢ 1 1/4 cups ( 283.75 g ) buttermilk
▢ 1 ( 84 g ) lemon
▢ 2 cups ( 494 g ) 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.

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