You know how I’m always droning on about how much I love cake, my favorite meal is cake, I survived not eating cake for a day . . . .blah-blah. Yeah, I’m a fan.
So it should be no surprise that guess what’s taking up your screen today-CAKE! You know—in case you couldn’t figure out what that ruffled flowered-crown sphere is.
The sarcasm you’re picking up on is directed at me, not you. I mean look, scroll down and you’ll see a second photo styled completely different with almost the same composition. It was just one of those days. Nothing creative was connecting and my indecision with what to go with just made things worse, so I gave up and ate cake.
On a more positive note, the cake is utterly fabulous. It’s one of my favorite cakes I’ve ever made from Better Homes and Gardens. I didn’t mess with the cake recipe, but I did flip out the whipped cream finish for a light and airy mousse-like buttercream—a new recipe I’m super pumped to share with you in the coming days. I know, why the wait? Because, why else? I have more cake to share!
Until then, check out this lemon cake recipe and get to it, because it’s fantastic! But before you do—I’m so curious—which styling would you have gone with, the first one or the styling in the second photo?
Easy Lemon Cake Recipe
Instructions
Preparation: Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease three 6x2-inch round cake pans. Line bottoms of pans with parchment paper; grease the paper. Set pans aside.
For the remainder of the cake recipe, click here.
I love the mood of the dark background in the first photo but the second is classic Bakers Royale. Gorgeous cake, that buttercream sounds fab!
Love the styling in the first picture!
Beautiful as always
Naomi this is a work of ART!! Way too gorgeous to even eat! I love the images, the cake, the backdrop, holy beautiful!
Olá bom dia!!!
Parabéns!!!! Ki belo trabalho, perfeito muito linda decoração gostaria de receber o passo a passo como fazer com tanta delicadeza!!!!! Deus abençoe suas mãos sempre e sempre..
Fotos perfeitas ,tudo muito bem explicado,obrigado foi para mim uma aula online.
This cake is gorgeous!! Love how easy it really is to make, its perfect for spring. Must give this a try 🙂
I like the first one better. The second background is too busy with the colours. A plain wood background would be great. Thanks for the recipe! Would this work in a 9×13 pan or 2 8″ pans? If so would the bake time vary?
This is gorgeous. Lemon and lilac are two of my favorite Spring loves!
I think maybe you might wanna consider rephrasing this “Nothing creative was connecting” …because – this is gorgeous – the cake, the background, the slice, the flowers, ALL of it is FANTASTIC!
YOU ARE CRAZY!! Both photos are gorgeous and creative, I can’t decide on my favorite . Love the dramaticness of both! Oh and of course the cake looks delicious!
Whete are the ingredients for the filling and the frosting?
You are so talented my dear! Love the contrast, color, and damn, the cake!
Saw this on Instagram and got sooo excited! It’s absolutely beautiful, Naomi. That first shot is stunning!
This is seriously the most stunning cake I’ve ever seen. Wow!!
I am all about cake too. Especially lemon cake as of now, yours is gorgeous I just don’t think I will the patience to pipe the frosting so nicely and neat.
I recently made some cheesecake lemon cookies that were to die for, so now that they are gone, I can safely bake this cake.
Complete cake perfection!! Love both pics 🙂
As always, cake is stunning! So it that cake stand, do you mind my asking where you got it?
Loving that 1st photo Naomi!
This cake sounds too good. I mean, seriously, TOO good. A lemon cake is in my near future, I think!
As far as your styling, the cake is GORGEOUS – you did such a great job frosting it, and I’m loving the contrast of the purple flowers on top. I think that the dark background allows your amazing frosting to really shine! But I also really like that you cut the cake and allowed us to see the inside in the second.
The cake stand is gorgeous, by the way!
I never make lemon cake and this recipe is making me want to change that pronto!
beautiful cake and I love pretty much anything with lemon in it. thanks!
Such a lovely cake! I feel you…I too once survived without eating cake for a day, wasn’t pretty 😛
GORGEOUS! I didn’t know that lilacs were edible. I have a lilac bush in the yard that is flowering right now. Perhaps I will try your lovely cake. PS. I would go with the styling in the first photo. Simply beautiful. Very chic and dramatic!
This is a masterpiece! No, sincerely I can’t take my eyes of it. Really have to try this one. Love it!
wow these photos are impressive, the mood is fantastic! And can I just say, what a wonderful model you have! Juicy, sweet, simply divine! Going to have to make this beauty, it looks absolutely delicious! x Motte
I think the ingredients and directions for the cream (frosting), is missing.
I completely understand your obsession! For me, it’s cookies (for sweet stuff) and french fries (for savory). If a day goes by where I haven’t had either, I feel as if the sky might as well be falling. I probably need some sort of intervention… Or maybe just a slice of your cake to get them off of my mind!
Lemon cake is one of my hands down favorites! It’s what Ben and I had at our wedding, so it holds a special place in my heart. I will have to give yours a go!
Your photos are always gorgeous! This cake looks incredibly delicious!
I like the first pic a bit better but it was hard to decide which one to pick because I always love everything you do.
How stunning! Beautiful and delicious.
Is there a way to modify this cake recipe for high altitude? I need this cake stat!
The recipe is missing the ingredients for the filling and frosting.
Seriously stunning Naomi!!
This cake is stunning, Naomi! Lemon desserts are my favorite! I love the first photo but they’re both gorgeous!
Really need to make this for this coming weekend…..what are the ingredients for the frosting please
This cake is absolutely stunning, Naomi! I love the frosting – so pretty. Lemon cakes have always been my favourite!
Absolutely STUNNING, Naomi! I must whip this up soon! xoxo
This is being written several months since you posted the gorgeous cake.
Can you direct us to the frosting recipe y et?
Also, what tip did you use to decorate the side?
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wow, it looks really really delicious…I would love to try it at the first sight. If I were in a cake shop, I may go and catch with any price 😀