Vanilla Cake Mix Lemon Cake

Vanilla Cake Mix Lemon Cake is a traditional American recipe for a classic vanilla sponge sandwich made from a basic pre-prepared vanilla cake mix flavoured with lemon. The full recipe is presented here and I hope you enjoy this classic American version of: Vanilla Cake Mix Lemon Cake.

prep time

20 minutes

cook time

35 minutes

Total Time:

55 minutes

Serves:

Rating:

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This is a classic vanilla-flavoured sponge cake that uses the Vanilla Cake Mix home-made cake mix substitute (or you can use a commercial box mix) as a base and which is flavoured with lemon. Essentially what you get is a lemon-flavoured Victoria sponge cake.

Ingredients:

550g (1 standard batch) Vanilla Cake Mix
50g butter, softened
1/2 tsp lemon extract
3 eggs, lightly beaten
finely-grated zest of 1 lemon
50ml lemon juice
200ml milk

Jam, to assemble
icing sugar, to dust

Method:

Turn the cake mix into a large bowl then add the butter and either rub or cut into the mixture with pastry knives until the mix resembles coarse crumbs. Form a well in the centre of the resultant mixture and pour in the milk, lemon extract, lemon zest, lemon juice and eggs. Stir well to combine and beat until smooth then divide the batter between two 20cm sandwich pans that have been greased and floured.

Transfer to an oven pre-heated to 175°C and bake for about 35 minutes, or until golden brown on top and the surface springs back when pressed. Turn out onto a wire rack to cool.

To assemble place one cake on a serving plate, coat the top with jam or jelly (strawberry, raspberry, apricot, plum and blackcurrant are traditional) then sit the second cake on top. Dust with icing sugar and serve.

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