Anne Byrn's Lemon Lover's White Chocolate Cake
"This cake is out of this world! I got everyone hyped about it when I spoke of making it for my Mom's birthday. This recipe calls for store-bought lemon curd but I like to use Bev's Lemon Curd recipe!"
photo by Wildflour
- Ready In:
- 52mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
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For the cake
- 6 ounces white chocolate chips
- 1 (18 1/2 ounce) package white cake mix (I like Betty Crocker)
- 2⁄3 cup water
- 1⁄3 cup vegetable oil
- 3 eggs
- 2 egg whites
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest, grated
- 1⁄2 cup lemon curd (I use recipe 46378 - Lemon curd is for the filling)
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For the frosting
- 6 ounces white chocolate chips
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, soft
- 1⁄4 cup butter, soft
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 3 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted (Important that you sift if you don't want lumps!)
directions
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For the cake:
- Melt 6 oz of white chocolate chips in the microwave for about 2 minutes, stirring half way through.
- Depending on the power of your microwave you may need more or less time.
- Be sure to watch carefully so that the white chocolate doesn't burn.
- Cool the white chocolate slightly.
- Add to the remainder of the cake ingredients and mix well.
- Pour into two 8-inch round cake pans which have been lined with greased aluminum foil.
- Bake 28 to 32 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.
- Allow to cool in pans for 10 minutes before turning out onto a rack to cool completely.
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For the frosting:
- Melt the 6 oz white chocolate chips in the microwave using the same procedure as before.
- Let cool slightly.
- Meanwhile combine the rest of the ingredients.
- Add the melted white chocolate.
- Beat with a mixer until fluffy.
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For the assembly:
- Spread one of the cooled cakes with lemon curd.
- Place the second cake on top.
- Frost the top and the sides of the cake.
- I prefer to keep this cake refrigerated due to the cream cheese frosting.
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Reviews
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THE BEST CAKE I have ever made or eaten!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We LOVED this!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!! I added a middle layer of lemon curd, and 2 layers of strawberry all-fruit spread! IT WAS KILLER!!!!!!!!! I topped it and surrounded it with fresh strawberries dipped in white chocolate, and what a beautiful cake it was for Valentine's Day!!!!!!! Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this recipe!!!!!!!!! Hope more people try it!!!!!!! :) :) :) -
Wow, this is superb!! I made the cake using recipe #208645 and recipe #46378 as suggested. This is definitely on my top TNT!! Thanks for posting!! This recipe made it into our book#179809! -
The cake turned out great (although it does taste like a box mix, I think). Make sure you follow the directions to sift the powdered sugar. I tried to skip that step, and the frosting did NOT turn out. Overall, it was a hit. -
Great cake recipe! Made it and it turned out perfect! I tried the jam filling version from Wildflour but it was very very sweet and rich! The icing makes up heaps! I had enough left over to do another cake top as well. I am going to make it with the lemon curd filling alone next time to try that. Thanks for the recipe! Will be in my favourites! -
This was a great tasting cake! Unfortunately, it was pretty hot and humid when I made it, so it didn't turn out even half as pretty as Wildflour's picture, but it still tasted great. I should have taken a picture of the disaster that was my cake after the car ride to work (the strawberry jam and lemon curd filling was oozing out the sides, the frosting was practically dripping off the sides of the cake, and the poor thing cracked down the middle -- eek!). I didn't make the dipped strawberries, but I had a container of white chocolate curls to use up, so I covered the cake with those to try and make the frosting more cohesive (which helped to make it look a little better, anyway). Oh well, that's what I get for trying to do a rush job on a layer cake in this weather (the mess was purely chef-based, not recipe-based) lol! On the up-side, I think I liked the cake part of it so much that I might use it all by itself for some sort of lemon trifle the next time I make it. Thanks for posting!
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Tweaks
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Fill split layers with blackberry jam.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Harley Seashell Pri
Norton, Virginia
I am a newlywed living in beautiful Virginia with my husband and 3 doggies. I'm a little on the hyper side and I am happiest playing hostess and cooking for a crowd! My kitchen is my domain and I find cooking to be very therapeutic. On a day off you might find me brewing a fresh pot of iced tea and hanging out in the kitchen either cleaning and organizing or tinkering with recipes! I rarely follow favorite recipes to a "T", preferring instead to allow my creative side to take over. I especially love the holidays because it gives me even more of an excuse to bake! In the summertime I love visiting my mom and stepdad in the VA Beach area. I love the ocean and I love to go shopping with my mom!
