BERRY LEMON CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
1 medium lemon [zest + juice]
½ cups butter
[room temperature]
1 ¼ cup sugar
3 large eggs
1 cup milk
12 oz cream cheese
½ cup butter
[room temperature]
confectioners’ sugar
[too your liking]
1 tablespoon lime zest
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
berries
_ butter three 9-inch cake pans
_ preheat oven to 180°C
_ whisk together flour, baking powder, salt and lemon zest
_ beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy
_ add one egg at a time
_ mix in the lemon juice
_ alternate adding the flour mixture and the milk
[mix until just combined]
_ divide batter evenly between the prepared pans
_ bake for 30 to 35 minutes
[until a pick inserted into the center comes out clean]
_ carefully take them out of the pans and let them cool down completely
_ beat cream cheese and butter until fluffy
_ gradually beat in the sugar
[start with half a cup and keep adding more if you like it sweeter]
_ beat in lime zest, lime juice and vanilla extract
[if you want to you can puree the berries or chop them very small and add them already right now]
_ place first cake layer on a cake board
_ slather the cream generously on top
[no problem if it sticks out on all sides]
_ press some berries into the cream
_ cover with a little more cream
_ add the second cake layer
[use some kind of ruler to check if the layer is even]
_ repeat with the cream and berries as before
_ place the third layer on top and make sure it’s level
_ generously slather the rest of the cream all around and on top of the cake
_ use a dough scraper [palette knife, or anything with a straight, thin edge] and swirl it around the cake
_ carefully scrape off any excess cream so the cake layers are visible again
_ decorate with berries
BEEREN ZITRONENKUCHEN MIT FRISCHKÄSECREME
260 g Mehl
2 Teelöffel Backpulver
½ Teelöffel Salz
1 mittlere Zitrone [Schale + Saft]
115 g Butter
[Zimmertemperatur]
250 g Zucker
3 große Eier
250 ml Milch
350 g Frischkäse
115 g Butter
[Zimmertemperatur]
Puderzucker
[nach Belieben]
1 Esslöffel Limettenschale
1 Esslöffel Limettensaft
1 Teelöffel Vanilleextrakt
Beeren
