Hello Cake Eaters– That should include most everyone! We are big on cake around here. So this week I set out for dinner with my Monday night buddies, this lemonade cake in hand. It was a sweet evening together. We sat out on Sally’s patio for a long, leisurely, laugh-filled dinner and then circled around to each share a summer day memory and to pray for each other. I was heart-warmed. Do love those gals…
So here it is. Lemonade Cake. Good for summer evenings with dear friends…
LEMONADE CAKE
Cake:
1 1/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter (room temperature)*
grated rind from one lemon
1/4 cup frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed
2 tsp. vanilla
3 eggs
2 cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/4 cups buttermilk**
Frosting:
1/2 cup butter (1 stick)*
8 oz. cream cheese
grated rind of one lemon
1 tab. lemon juice (no more!!)
4 cups powdered sugar (just a bit more than a 1 pound box)
With an electric mixer, cream together the sugar and butter. Then mix in the lemon rind, lemonade concentrate, vanilla and eggs. Finally beat in the flour, baking powder, salt and buttermilk.
Spoon the batter into two 9″ cake pans (or 1 9″x13″ land) that have been sprayed with cooking spray. Pop them into the oven for 25-30 minutes at 350 degrees. Take them out when they just start to turn golden and are firm to the touch.
Let them cool completely before you frost them.
For the frosting, use the electric mixer to beat together the butter and cream cheese. Then beat in the lemon rind and juice. Finally leave the mixer on low to beat in the powdered sugar, increasing the speed as it is incorporated, until it’s all bended together.
Frost up that cake and trim it with a sunny slice of lemon and a little mint.
*If you are using butter straight from the fridge, microwave it a
Oh wow! So many things in this cake that I like… lemonade, cream cheese, buttermilk, … it sounds like a winner!
Yep Daisy– I’m pretty much pulled in by anything made with cream cheese. Don’t you have a list of certain ingredients that always call your name? Mines chocolate (of course), apricots, olives, almonds… and cream cheese!
What a great idea!
Thanks Sophie. Your story is doing along!! It’s a gift to be able to really write…
verzy nice and so homemade!! love buttermilk love lemons sure this was sunny summery and great!
Yep Poli, after all the fun discussion on your blog about homemade vs. cake mixes, here it is a real homemade cake! Funny.
yes that is what I thought 🙂 htanks for posting it it looks lovely, not sure what frozen lemonade concentrate is though, Ive never heard of that. can it be replaced with fresh squeezed lemon juice do you think?
Hi Poli– Yep, I’m sure you could substitute lemon juice for the lemonade concentrate. I’m wondering if it might den be better, fresher…
it might even be interesting, I love the idea of a buttermilk and lemon cake 🙂
Absolutely beautiful cake Rhonda, delicious too! I love lemon anything and especially cake.
thanks Suzanne. I especially like lemon in summer– winter I definitely with into chocolate mode.
This is such a lovely cake. I can imagine how tangy and delicious this is Rhonda. And…cream cheese and butter frosting is my favorite. I think I have to make this one….
Hope you get to chance to try it Seana– I’m a big cream cheese frosting fan too.
Lemonade cake, just a great idea!!! Why didn’t I think of that?! ;-))) i love it!
Oh my goodness! This cake looks incredible!
Thanks Kristen…