Double Lemon Streusel Cake Recipes

LEMON STREUSEL CAKE

Steps:

• Cut butter into cake mix until crumbly. Set aside 1 cup mixture for topping; stir in nuts and set aside. To remaining mixture, add milk and eggs; beat on high speed for 2 minutes. Pour into greased and floured 13x9-in. baking dish; set aside. , In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, sugar, lemon juice and zest until blended. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto the batter and spread to edges of pan. , Sprinkle with reserved cake mixture. Bake at 350° for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Store in refrigerator.

DOUBLE THE STREUSEL COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder and salt.
• Add the sugar.
• Blend the 1/4 cup oil into the flour and sugar mixture until it is like cornmeal texture.
• In another bowl, combine the egg, milk and vanilla.
• Add to the flour mixture. Stir only enough to mix.
• Pour 1/2 mixture in a greased 8" pan.
• Combine the streusel ingredients, and sprinkle 1/2 of the streusel on the cake batter.
• Add remaining batter on top, and sprinkle with the other 1/2 streusel.
• Bake in a 350 degree oven for 25 minutes.
• You may drizzle with a thin powdered sugar icing, if desired.

DOUBLE-LEMON CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325º.
• Butter a 10-inch tube or bundt pan.
• Combine flour, baking soda and salt.
• Cream butter with an electric mixer.
• Add 1 cup sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Beat in the quarter-cup lemon juice and the zest of 3 lemons.
• Add the flour mixture and sour cream alternately, mixing well with a rubber spatula.
• Scrape into buttered pan and bake 60-70 minutes, until a skewer inserted in the thickest part comes out clean.
• Cool in the pan on a rack for 10 minutes, then turn cake out onto a plate.
• Combine remaining 1/3 cup of lemon juice and 2/3 cup sugar in small saucepan.
• Cook over medium heat, whisking constantly, until the sugar has dissolved.
• Stir in remaining zest.
• Prick the cake all over with a long skewer.
• Spoon or brush the glaze over the entire cake.
• Cool completely before serving.

DOUBLE LEMON STREUSEL CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Generously grease and flour 13 x 9-inch pan. In large bowl, combine cake mix and margarine at low speed until crumbly. Reserve 1 cup of crumb mixture for topping. To remaining crumb mixture, add milk and eggs beat 2 minutes at high speed. Pour batter into greased and floured pan.In small bowl, combine all topping ingredients except nuts beat until smooth.Drop topping mixture by teaspoonfuls onto cake batter carefully spread evenly to cover. In small bowl, combine reserved 1 cup crumb mixture and nuts. Sprinkle over topping mixture. Bake at 350°F. for 30 to 40 minutes or until top springs back when touched lightly in center. Cool completely. Store in refrigerator. *TIP: Yellow cake mix can be substituted for the lemon cake mix.HIGH ALTITUDE - Above 3,500 feet: Add 1/4 cup flour to dry cake mix. Bake at 375° F. for 30 to 40 minutes.Nutrition Per Serving: Calories 280 Protein 4g Carbohydrate 32g Fat 15g Sodium 31OmgFrom "Pillsbury Best of the Bake-Off® Cookbook." Copyright 2004 General Mills. Used with permission of the publisher, Wiley Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.