Lemon cake: lemon or vanilla frosting?

[Anonymous]

Making a birthday cake. The cake is lemon. New recipe so I don't know how lemony it comes out but the batter is pretty lemony.

Vanilla or lemon buttercream?

[Anonymous]

lemon buttercream.

[Anonymous]

If the recipient is into lemon, go with lemon icing too! You can always dial is down a little in the icing, but I think it balances so well with the sweetness of cake and icing that "too much lemon" is almost not a thing.

[Anonymous]

Lemon.


And not too sweet.

[Anonymous]

Lemon glaze would be good. Is this like a lemon pound cake type thing? Or like a lemon flavored betty crocker box cake?

[Anonymous]

Thanks! I was leaning towards lemon but when I tasted the batter I wondered if I needed more banance.

The bday boy loves lemon. Happily sucks on plain lemon if I let him. So I guess for him it wouldn't be overdoing it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lemon glaze would be good. Is this like a lemon pound cake type thing? Or like a lemon flavored betty crocker box cake?

Not a pound cake. A round cake, supposed to be nice and light but again, I haven't made it before. Not a box mix.

[Anonymous]

Lemon cream cheese frosting! Yum.

[Anonymous]

If you have the time, consider making a lemon curd and putting that between the layers but using vanilla buttercream. I think that would be delicious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lemon glaze would be good. Is this like a lemon pound cake type thing? Or like a lemon flavored betty crocker box cake?

Agree. Make a lemon glaze. Look up Barefoot Contessa’s recipe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you have the time, consider making a lemon curd and putting that between the layers but using vanilla buttercream. I think that would be delicious.

That was my first plan! But I'm making it while working and that's one step too many

[Anonymous]

Raspberry

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you have the time, consider making a lemon curd and putting that between the layers but using vanilla buttercream. I think that would be delicious.

That was my first plan! But I'm making it while working and that's one step too many

I totally get you. Well my vote would be for vanilla buttercream but I recognize I have been out numbered.

[Anonymous]

creamcheese flavored frosting

[Anonymous]

Consider a raspberry cream cheese frosting!