Recipe: Lemon Cake with Lemon Filling and Lemon Buttercream Frosting

LEMON CAKE WITH LEMON FILLING
AND LEMON BUTTERCREAM FROSTING
"This cake is bursting with lemon flavor - in the cake, filling and frosting."



1/2 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup Karo Light Corn Syrup
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 1/4 cups sugar
3 egg room temperature
1 teaspoon Spice Islands Pure Vanilla Extract
1 tablespoon grated lemon peel
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup Argo Corn Starch
1 teaspoon Argo Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
Lemon Filling (recipe follows)
Lemon Buttercream Frosting (recipe follows)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour two (9-inch) round cake pans.

Combine buttermilk, corn syrup and lemon juice in a small bowl. Set aside.

Cream butter and sugar in a large mixer bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, then vanilla and lemon peel. Set aside.

Sift flour, corn starch, baking soda, baking powder and salt together. Add to butter mixture alternately with buttermilk mixture, mixing on low speed after each addition until combined. Spread batter evenly in prepared pans.

Bake 20 to 25 minutes until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 15 minutes. Remove to wire rack. Cool completely.

While cake is baking and cooling, prepare Lemon Filling and Lemon Buttercream Frosting.

Spread Lemon Filling between cooled cake layers. Frost top and sides of cake with Lemon Buttercream Frosting. Chill 2 hours or until set.

LEMON FILLING

2/3 cup sugar
3 tablespoons Argo Corn Starch
1/4 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup water
2 egg yolks
1 teaspoon finely grated lemon peel
1/3 cup lemon juice
1 1/2 tablespoons butter

Combine sugar, corn starch and salt in a medium saucepan. Stir in 2/3 cup water until smooth. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, stirring frequently. When mixture starts to simmer and turn translucent, whisk in egg yolks, then lemon peel, lemon juice and butter. Bring mixture to a full simmer, stirring constantly.

Remove from heat, and transfer to another container to cool. Press a piece of plastic wrap to surface of filling and cool to room temperature. Do not stir once filling is set. (Filling may also be refrigerated overnight.)

LEMON BUTTERCREAM FROSTING

3 3/4 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup butter OR margarine, softened
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon finely grated lemon peel
1/2 teaspoon Spice Islands Pure Vanilla Extract
1 dash salt

Combine all frosting ingredients in a large mixer bowl. Beat until light and fluffy. Add additional milk or lemon juice, 1 teaspoon at a time, as needed, to reach desired spreading consistency.

Makes 1 (2 layer, 9-inch) cake, 12 servings
Source: Argo Corn Starch, ACH Food Companies, Inc.