Every well decorated cake deserve a tasty cake underneath. Here’s a great lemon cake recipe with lemon filling:
Lemon Cake Recipe
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Farenheit
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
2 eggs
2 cups sifted cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup buttermilk
Stir shortening to soften. Gradually add sugar and cream until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and lemon extract. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each one. Sift together dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour. Beat after each addition. Bake in 2 paper-lined 8-inch round pans in 350 degree oven for 30 minutes.
Remove from over. Test for doneness with toothpicks.
Let cool then fill with lemon filling.
Lemon Filling Recipe
3/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
Dash salt
1 slightly beaten egg yolk
3/4 cup water
3 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
Mix sugar, cornstarch, and salt; add egg yolk, water, and lemon juice; cook in double boiler till thick, stirring occasionally.
Remove from heat and add lemon peel and butter. Cool. Makes 1 1/2 cups.
