Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, lemon cake with lemon zest cream cheese icing. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Sweet and tangy cream cheese frosting or a dollop of homemade whipped cream would also be wonderful choices. Frost cooled cupcakes with vanilla buttercream. If topping with lemon zest, do so right before serving. There may be leftover frosting depending how much you use on each cupcake.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lemon cake with lemon zest cream cheese icing using 14 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Lemon Cake with Lemon Zest Cream Cheese Icing:

1. Prepare 1 box favorite lemon cake mix
2. Get 3/4 cup sour cream
3. Make ready 1/2 cup vegetable oil
4. Get 1/2 cup water
5. Take 1/4 cup mayonnaise
6. Take 3 eggs room temperature
7. Take 2 tsp vanilla extract
8. Take For the Frosting
9. Get 8 oz cream cheese, softened
10. Take 1/4 cup butter, softened
11. Get 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
12. Make ready 1 tsp vanilla
13. Get 3 tbsp fresh lemon juice
14. Prepare 3 tbsp lemon zest

Adding acid to a cake is essential to balance out the sweetness To make the icing on top look pretty, try running a skewer along the top as if you were drawing a chess board. It's an old fashioned technique I learned. This lemon sheet cake recipe is totally homemade and completely delicious! It's super fluffy and light and perfect for spring.

Instructions to make Lemon Cake with Lemon Zest Cream Cheese Icing:

1. Preheat oven to 350. Grease a bundt pan
2. Place all cake ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Mix on medium with an electric mixer until all ingredients are combined, pour in bundt pan. Place in oven.
3. For the frosting, add the butter, lemon juice and cream cheese in a large bowl. Beat with an electric mixer on medium for 2 minutes. Turn the mixer down to low gradually add the powder sugar, vanilla and lemon zest. Once combined, turn the mixer up to medium and beat for another two minutes. Spread onto cooled cake then add chocolate chips to cake and serve. Store in refrigerator for up to 5 days. Enjoy!!

This lemon sheet cake recipe is totally homemade and completely delicious! It's super fluffy and light and perfect for spring. It's topped with cream cheese frosting On top of the cream cheese icing, I added the little candied lemon rounds from Trader Joes! Do they still have these or are they seasonal? lemon slices quartered. mint leaves. Drizzle the bundt cake with lemon cream cheese frosting.

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