Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, simple lemon cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have simple lemon cake using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Simple Lemon Cake:

1. Get cake flour
2. Prepare sugar
3. Get baking powder
4. Prepare baking soda
5. Make ready salt
6. Prepare eggs
7. Make ready water
8. Get vegetable oil or melted margarine
9. Get freshly,grated lemon zest
10. Take fresh lemon juice
11. Take buttermilk
12. Get desiccated coconut(optional)
13. Get WHITE CHOCOLATE BUTTERCREAM FROSTING
14. Get unsalted butter,softened
15. Prepare powdered sugar
16. Make ready white chocolate,melted and cooled
17. Make ready whipping cream

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Instructions to make Simple Lemon Cake:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F F/177 degrees C.
2. Grease and line of 8-9 round baking pan.set aside.
3. In a mixing bowl,sift the flour,baking soda,baking powder,sugar and salt.
4. Combine flour mixture,water,eggs,lemon juice,lemon zest,vegetable oil and buttermilk. Beat with an electric mixer at low speed for 30 seconds.
5. Scrape sides and continue beating for 2 minutes at medium speed or beat by hand using a wire whisk for 3 minutes.
6. Pour mixture into prepared pan and bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted at the center of the cake comes out clean.(let cool for 10 minutes).
7. For the white chocolate frosting: Using hand mixer,beat the butter and powdered sugar at low speed until fluffy.Add the melted chocolate and whipping cream to the butter mixture and beat until the mixture comes together, about 3-4 minutes. Refrigerate until ready to use, about 10-15 minutes.Spread evenly over topping of cool cake then sprinkle some desiccated coconut if desired.Refrigerate at least an hour before serving.

I followed the directions mostly except I used cake flour, didn't have a full cup of butter, I used a bit less and I used the zest and juice of one large lemon. See recipe notes for freezing cake. A cake is only as good as the frosting it's paired with. This homemade lemon buttercream frosting is easy and really makes the cake shine. It's so quick and easy to take a normal cake, add a few finishing touches, and make it next-level beautiful.

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