Lemon Cake with Chocolate Butter Cream Icing

Lemon Cake with Chocolate Butter Cream Icing

Hai Friends...Hope you remember about the food stall that I shared with you in one of my post....Sorry for the late update,I want to share a few photos of that..We made delicious Brownies, Gobi 65, Spicked Chicken Skewers on behalf of our team...Rest of them made Some Fruit pizza, Spring rolls, Puddings, Some Fried sweets, Gulab Jamuns and some Indian Snacks...We really had a great time and all the stuffs that we made got over soon..Now back to today’s recipe..

I recently found that lemon and chocolate goes well together,so I discovered this cake and it was a huge blast..I made this cake for my sister’s friends birthday...I didn’t get a chance to look at the inside of the cake,since it is made for a birthday..I told my sister to take a picture of the cake after it has been cut,but she missed that..So sorry for that,but I can imagine how the cake will be after it has done its job “Lemon flavoured cake with creamy butter cream icing”...I made chocolate butter cream icing for this(you could check the recipe here)...So please try this cake and tell me how it came..


Ingrediants:

All Purpose Flour / Maida-2.5 cups / 300 gms

Eggs-4

Sugar-2 cups / 400 gms

Vegetable Oil-2/3 cup / 160 ml

Milk-2/3 cup / 160 ml

Vanilla-1 tsp

Salt a pinch

Baking powder-2 tsp

Baking soda-1 tsp

Lemon juice-1 tblspn

Yellow food colouring-a pinch(optional)

Chocolate Butter Cream Icing(click here for recipe)

Method:

Preheat the oven to 180°C ( 350°F).Prepare 2 round tin by applying oil in the bottom and dust it with flour and coat flour on all sides..Tip out the extra flour..

In a bowl add in flour,salt,baking powder,baking soda and mix well.

In a mixing bowl add in eggs,sugar and vanilla and beat till fluffy.

Add in lemon juice,oil,milk and mix well.

Sift in the flour mixture and fold gently till combined.

Add in yellow food colouring and mix well.

Tip this into two tin and bake it for 25-30 min.Let it cool down and remove it from the tin..

Leave it to cool completely before icing.

Prepare the Chocolate Butter Cream Icing (Check recipe by clicking this)...

Sandwich the cakes with a dollop of icing and cover the entire cake with the icing and decorate it as you wish..

Enjoy..

Pictorial:

Grab all your ingrediants

Butter a tin and dust it with flour on all sides

add salt,baking powder,baking soda with flour and mix it together...

take eggs and sugar in a mixing bowl

add vanilla...

beat it till fluffy

add lemon juice

pour in oil...

add milk and mix well...

Sift in flour mixture..

add food colouring and mix well

lovely colour right...

Divide it into two tins and bake to perfection

Take your chocolate icing

dollop it over the cake and sandwich with other cake and cover the entire cake with icing

all done...

Sprinkle the cake with some sprinkles...

i love it...