Best Lemon Frosted Lemon Cake Recipes

FROSTED CAKE MIX LEMON COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F (350°F for dark or nonstick cookie sheets). In large bowl, beat cake mix, butter, shortening and egg on medium speed about 1 minute or until blended.
• Onto ungreased cookie sheet, drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart.
• Bake 9 to 12 minutes or until light brown around edges. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheet. Cool completely. Frost with frosting. Store covered.

LEMON-FROSTED PISTACHIO CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line the bottom of an 8-inch nonstick cake pan with parchment paper.
• In a mixer fitted with a paddle, cream together the butter and superfine sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, then add the ground pistachios and almonds. Add the orange juice, orange zest and rosewater, and mix well. Using a rubber spatula, fold in the flour; do not overmix.
• Scoop the mixture into the cake pan, and bake until the top is firm and a light golden brown, about 40 minutes. Lightly cover the top of the cake with foil and continue baking until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out dry, about 10 minutes. Allow the cake to cool in the pan for several minutes, then remove and cool on a rack.
• When the cake is cool, make the icing: mix the confectioners' sugar and lemon juice together in a small bowl, and pour over the cake. If desired, decorate with crystallized rose petals and pistachios. Allow the icing to set for 30 minutes before serving.

LEMON FROSTED CARROT CAKE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line muffin pans with 24 Reynolds® StayBrite® Baking Cups.
• Combine flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, nutmeg, and salt in a large bowl.
• Combine the carrots, oil, applesauce, egg, and vanilla in a medium bowl. Add carrot mixture to the flour mixture; mix just until combined. Divide the batter among the prepared muffin cups.
• Bake 16 to 18 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in centers comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes in muffin pan. Transfer cupcakes to cooling rack; cool completely.
• Top with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting, reserving a small amount. Make "nests" with the coconut. Dip jelly beans or candy eggs slightly into extra frosting and then place in the "nests" to keep them in place.
• Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting: Combine cream cheese, butter, softened; and lemon curd in a large mixing bowl. Beat with an electric mixer on medium to high speed until smooth. Gradually add 1 1/2 cups of powdered sugar, beating well. Beat in 2 teaspoons milk. Gradually beat in another 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar. If necessary, beat in additional milk, 1 teaspoon at a time, to reach spreading consistency.

FROSTED COURGETTE & LEMON CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Butter 2 x 20cm sandwich tins and line the bases with baking parchment. Zest 2 lemons, then squeeze their juice into a separate bowl. Put 200g butter, the caster sugar, eggs, courgettes, poppy seeds, vanilla and lemon zest into a mixing bowl. Beat to a creamy batter. Stir in 1 tbsp lemon juice, the flours, baking powder and ¼ tsp salt. Spoon the mix into the tins, then bake for 25 mins or until risen, golden and springy in the middle.
• Make a drizzle by mixing another tbsp lemon juice with 25g icing sugar. Put the remaining icing sugar and butter into a bowl, add the soft cheese, remaining lemon juice (about 2 tbsp) and grate in the final lemon's zest. Beat to make a creamy, smooth frosting.
• When the cakes are ready, cool for 15 mins in their tins, then turn onto a cooling rack. Prick several times with a cocktail stick, spoon over the drizzle and cool completely. Can be frozen at this stage for up to 1 month. Put one cake onto a serving plate and spread with just under half the frosting. Spread over the lemon curd, if using. Top with the second cake, spread the remaining frosting over the top and sprinkle with poppy seeds.

FROSTED CAKE MIX LEMON COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F (350°F for dark or nonstick cookie sheets). In large bowl, beat cake mix, butter, shortening and egg on medium speed about 1 minute or until blended.
• Onto ungreased cookie sheet, drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart.
• Bake 9 to 12 minutes or until light brown around edges. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheet. Cool completely. Frost with frosting. Store covered.

LEMON FROSTED LEMON CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Butter, a 9 inch springform pan and then line the bottom of the pan with parchment paper. Set aside.
• Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy and pale in color.
• Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
• Beat in the vanilla extract and lemon zest.
• Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt and then add to the batter along with the lemon juice.
• Mix only until incorporated.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan, smoothing the top with a spatula.
• Bake about 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Place on a wire rack to cool, then gently remove the sides of the pan.
• For the icing, combine the sifted confectioners' sugar with the 2 tablespoons lemon juice. Frost the top of the cake, allowing the icing to drip down the sides.
• Let the icing set before covering.

LEMON FROSTED PUDDING POUND CAKE

Steps:

• I used a large capacity 16 cup Square Bundt pan to make this cake, the batter is not 16 cups but I wanted a variety of different shaped cakes for the reunion. Spray cake pan with cooking spray or Bakers joy & set aside till needed.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Cream butter, sour cream and sugar together till light and creamy about 3-4 minutes, and gradually add sugar a little at a time, and beat until no sugar granules remain in the mixture & it is light and fluffy beating an additional 4 to 5 minutes.
• Break eggs into a small bowl, and gradually add one at a time to butter mixture, beating well after each addition.
• Zest lemons and squeeze out lemon juice
• Add extract to lemon juice, and pour into cake batter, then add the lemon zest, and beat till blended together.
• Measure and sift flour into a medium size bowl.
• Then add lemon pudding mix, and stir to blend together.
• Add applesauce to cake batter then mix just till blended.
• Gradually add the flour mixture to cake batter a little at a time in about 3 intervals, beating well after each addition.
• Then pour batter into prepared ban at bake in preheated oven for 90 minutes or until tooth pick inserted into center comes out clean.
• Remove from oven and allow to cool for about 10 minutes until cake pulls away from sides of pan, then invert onto cooling rack and allow to cool completely. Then transfer to cake platter and frost with your favorite frosting.
• To make frosting, Cream butter with powdered sugar and beat to blend together in a medium size bowl. Add the lemon juice and yellow food coloring if desired, beating well to blend. Then add enough evaporated milk in one tablespoon increments until desired spreading consistency is reached. Frost cake as desired, and garnish if desired, with half slices of lemons and maraschino halves, with strawberry quarters alternated with Lemon slice candies if desired.
• Frost cake as desired, and garnish as desired, with half slices of lemon and maraschino cherry halves, with strawberry quarters, alternated with lemon slice candies if desired.