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About this lemon cream cheese frosting: Lemon cream cheese frosting is basically cream cheese frosting made even more delicious with the addition of lemon juice and lemon zest. It's perfect for lemon cake, vanilla or white cake, banana cake, pretty much any kind of cake. This luscious Lemon Cake with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting is sunshine served on a plate!
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lemon cake with lemon zest cream cheese icing using 14 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon Cake with Lemon Zest Cream Cheese Icing:
- Get 1 box favorite lemon cake mix
- Prepare 3/4 cup sour cream
- Take 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- Prepare 1/2 cup water
- Get 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- Make ready 3 eggs room temperature
- Prepare 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Get For the Frosting
- Take 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- Prepare 1/4 cup butter, softened
- Take 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- Prepare 1 tsp vanilla
- Get 3 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- Get 3 tbsp lemon zest
It's light, creamy, and pairs really well with the lemon cake. If you'd rather have a different flavor, try this vanilla whipped cream cheese frosting (or add some lemon zest to it!), raspberry cream cheese frosting, or use a simple lemon icing by mixing powdered sugar with a little fresh lemon juice! This is a great frosting for the Carrot Cake. The lemon zest complements the cream cheese so perfectly that I sometimes even snack on this frosting I just can't get enough of the sweet, tangy flavor!
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!!
Let cake cool completely ant then frost with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting. Frosting Directions: Combine softened cream cheese, softened butter, lemon juice, lemon zest and powdered sugar, beat with a hand mixer or in your stand mixer adding whipping cream as necessary until desired fluffiness. Frost completely cooled cake and enjoy. This is the most delicious and moist Lemon Bundt Cake recipe! It is covered in a sweet lemon glaze and topped off with an amazing cream cheese frosting with lemon zest, making it irresistible.
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