Lemon Cake
Ingredients
Cake
- ¼ cup sugar
- juice from 2 lemons
- 1 cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 3 cups flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cup milk
- zest of 2 lemons
Buttercream
- 1 ½ cups unsalted butter room temperature
- 6 cups confectioner’s sugar
- zest from 3 lemons
- 2 tsp pure lemon extract
- juice from ½ lemon
- yellow food colouring
- ½ tsp matcha green tea powder
Instructions
- Mix together the ¼ cup sugar and lemon juice in a small bowl and set aside.
- Place the butter in a large bowl and beat with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add the sugar and mix well. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt in a separate bowl. Add this to the butter mixture in 2 additions, alternating with milk (flour mixture > milk > flour mixture). Add the lemon zest and fully combine.
- Pour the batter into two buttered and floured 9-inch round cake pans. Bake at 350F for 35-40 minutes. Once the cakes are fully cooked, transfer them to a wire rack while still in the pans, and drizzle the sugar and lemon juice from Step 1 on top. Allow the cakes to fully cool.
- In the meantime, make the buttercream. Place the butter and sugar in a large bowl and beat with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add the lemon zest, lemon extract and lemon juice and mix well.
- Place about ½ cup of buttercream in a smaller bowl and 2 tbsp of buttercream in a smaller bowl. Mix the matcha green tea powder with the 2 tbsp of buttercream. Add a few drops of yellow food colouring to the large amount of buttercream and mix well.
- To assemble the cake, slice off the surface of one of the cakes to create a flat surface. Stack the second cake on top and carve the cakes into a lemon shape.
- Spread the white buttercream in between both layers, then coat the entire cake in a thin coating of the yellow buttercream. Place the cake in the fridge for about 10 minutes for the buttercream to stiffen.
- Coat the cake in a thicker layer of yellow buttercream. Then draw a leaf shape onto the cake with the matcha buttercream. Slice the cake and enjoy!
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