Whole Lemon Cake Recipes

WHOLE LEMON LAYER CAKE

Steps:

• Place Meyer lemons in a 2-quart saucepan with 4 cups water. Bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat and cover; simmer lemons until soft, about 25 minutes. Remove from heat and cool completely.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease two 9-inch cake pans, line the bottoms with parchment paper, and lightly grease the parchment paper.
• Remove any stems from the lemons. Slice into quarters and remove all seeds.
• Place the lemon quarters in the work bowl of a large food processor and process until fairly smooth, about 30 seconds. Add flour, sugar, butter, baking powder, and salt. Pulse about 10 times, just until the batter comes together into coarse crumbs with flecks of lemon rind. Pour in eggs and limoncello with the motor running; process until a thick, slightly grainy batter forms, 10 seconds or less.
• Divide batter between the prepared pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the tops are light gold and spring back lightly to the touch, and a toothpick inserted into the middle of each cake comes out clean, 20 to 23 minutes. Cool in the pans for about 5 minutes, then remove and finish cooling on baking racks.
• Place 1 cake layer on a cake plate and cover with lemon curd. Top with the second layer and frost just the top, or top and sides, with cream cheese frosting.

SIMPLE LEMON CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly butter and flour a 9-inch round cake pan (2 inches deep). In a medium saucepan, cover lemon slices with 3 cups water. Add pinch of salt, cover, and bring to a boil over high. Boil lemons, partially covered, until very tender, 15 minutes. Drain in a colander and transfer to a food processor, along with lemon juice; process until smooth. Set aside.
• In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and 1/2 teaspoon salt. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat butter on medium, 2 minutes. Gradually add granulated sugar and continue to beat until light and fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes, scraping down bowl as needed. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition.
• With mixer on low, gradually add flour mixture in 3 additions, alternating with 2 additions buttermilk. Beat in vanilla, then fold in lemon mixture.
• Transfer batter to pan and bake until deep golden brown and a toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs attached, 35 to 40 minutes. Let cool in pan on a wire rack, 20 minutes. Remove cake from pan and let cool completely on rack. Dust with confectioners' sugar and serve with raspberries and cream, if desired.

LEMON LAYER CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Line bottoms of 2 greased 9-in. round baking pans with parchment; grease parchment., Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add eggs and egg yolks, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in lemon zest and juice. In a small bowl, mix sour cream and milk. In another bowl, whisk together flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda; add to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream mixture., Transfer to prepared pans. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 24-28 minutes. Cool in pans 10 minutes before removing to wire racks; remove parchment. Cool slightly., For syrup, in a small saucepan, combine sugar and lemon juice. Bring to a boil; cook until liquid is reduced by half. Cool completely., For frosting, beat cream cheese and butter until smooth; beat in confectioners' sugar, lemon juice and salt until blended., Using a long serrated knife, cut each cake horizontally in half. Brush layers with warm syrup; cool completely., Place 1 cake layer on a serving plate; spread with 1 cup frosting. Repeat layers twice. Top with remaining cake layer. Frost top and sides with remaining frosting. If desired, top with lemon slices or edible flowers. Refrigerate leftovers.

WHOLE LEMON CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350' Grease and flour a 9x13 cake pan and set aside.
• 2. Wash the lemon(s) and dry the fruit with a clean towel. Then cut in half, remove the seeds and juice. Set the juice aside. Cut the lemon into 8 pieces pulp and all (you are going to use the whole lemon so make them blemish free). Put the pieces of lemon in you food processor, and the raisins and pecans. Pulse them until both fruit and nuts are finely chopped. If you don't have a food processor chop by hand as finely as you can and set aside
• 3. Place 1 cup of flour, the salt, sugar, baking soda and baking powder in your mixing bowl. Blend them together on low speed.
• 4. Add the second cup of flour and blend it in on low speed.
• 5. Add the lemon extract, butter and 3/4 cup of milk mix at low speed until moist. Then move the speed to medium and then high. Beat for two minutes on high then shut off the mixer and scrape down the bowl. Keep as much air in the batter as possible.
• 6. Turn the mixer back on low and add eggs one at a time for two minutes. Add 1/3 cup of milk and beat on high for 2 minutes. Shut off the mixer and scrape the bowl. Keep as much air in the batter as possible.
• 7. Fold in the fruit by hand being careful to keep the batter as fluffy as possible. Pour the batter into prepared cake pan(s) and smooth the top gently. Bake in the middle of the oven for 40 to 50 minutes or the 8 inch layer cakes for 25 to 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
• 8. While the cake is baking make the topping to sprinkle over the warm cake.
• 9. TOPPING 1/3 c. fresh lemon (from the fresh lemon you juiced earlier) DO NOT add the ingredients below to the juice. Mix the next three ingredients together and set aside. 1/2 c. sugar, 1 t. cinnamon, 1/4 c. chopped pecans
• 10. Remove the cake from the oven and set it on a wire rack.
• 11. Now drizzle the lemon juice over the hot cake. NOTE: If I have more then 1/3 cup of juice I use it.
• 12. Sprinkle the chopped pecans over the cinnamon and sugar.
• 13. Let the cake come to room temperature, then cover it and refrigerate. Cut and serve. This cake also freezes well if wrapped and protected well.