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Lemon Buttermilk Rosette Cake Recipe

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Lemon Rosette Cake

A few weeks ago, one of Ryan’s coworkers asked me to decorate a cake for her baby’s 1st birthday.  Naturally, I offered to make two since you just gotta have the mini-cake for the kiddo to devour!

We made a fabulously moist strawberry cake (based on this recipe) along with a moist and fluffy lemon cake for the grown ups.  She chose to have me frost both cakes with a whipped cream cheese frosting.  It is to die for.  I mean LITERALLY to die for: a stick of cream cheese and a cup of heavy cream.

Now let me tell you, the frosting job is easier than it may look. I find using tips an easy way to make cakes look nice without too much skill involved.  They are truly forgiving.  This is coming from a woman who can barely draw a stick figure. I mean, bless their sweet hearts, my kids are truly disappointed when they have to do crafts with me and not their dad.  The point is, don’t be intimidated. If I can do it, you can do it!

So, if you love having your food look as pretty as it tastes, give this Lemon Rosette a try!

Lemon Rosette Cake

Lemon Rosette Cake
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Lemon Buttermilk Rosette Cake

Course cake, Dessert
Author Tammy Lakey

Ingredients

For the Cake:

  • 3 cups cake flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 cup unsalted butter softened
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 4 large eggs; separated at room temp
  • zest of 1 small lemon
  • 2 tablespoons lemon juice fresh
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 1/3 cups buttermilk
  • 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar

For the Frosting:

  • 8 ounces cream cheese 1 package
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1½ cups heavy cream
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • pinch of salt

For the Syrup:

  • 1/4 cup lemon juice
  • 1/4 cup sugar

Instructions

Cake

  1. Preheat oven to 350°.
  2. Grease and flour two 9-inch round cake pans or put a 9-inch parchment circle on the bottom of each pan and then spray pans.
  3. In large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Sift into another large bowl.
  4. In another large bowl, beat butter and sugar at medium speed 2 minutes, until fluffy. Beat in egg yolks, one at a time, mixing well after each. Beat in lemon juice, zest, and vanilla.
  5. At low speed, beat in flour mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture (about 3 flour additions and 2 buttermilk additions). Beat just until blended.
  6. In small glass or metal bowl with clean beaters, beat egg whites with cream of tartar until stiff peaks form.
  7. With rubber spatula, gently fold egg white mixture, in thirds, into batter.
  8. Spread batter in prepared pans.
  9. Bake 35 to 40 minutes, until cake tester inserted in centers comes out clean.
  10. Cool in pans on racks 5-10 minutes Invert onto racks. Let sit until completely cool.

Frosting:

  1. With a mixer, whip cream to stiff peaks (do not under whip!), and set aside.
  2. In another bowl, mix cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, and salt. Whip until fluffy.
  3. Gently fold in whipped cream into cream cheese mixture in three additions, making sure to be short and gentle in order to not deflate whipped cream.
  4. Store in fridge. Frost cake just before serving.

Syrup:

  1. In a small saucepan, combine sugar and lemon juice. Bring to a boil and cook just until sugar is dissolved.

Assembly:

  1. Using a large knife or cake leveler, level cake tops, if necessary.
  2. Using a pastry brush, brush lemon syrup onto each cake.
  3. Take one cake layer and spread a layer of frosting on top.
  4. Stack the second cake layer.
  5. Spread a layer of frosting over the whole cake (This is called a "crumb coat." This layer of frosting is just enough to cover the cake so that none of the color is showing through. It does not have to be even as it will be covered up with the roses.)
  6. Cut the tip of the icing bag, insert a star tip (I use Wilton 1M), and fill the bag with icing.
  7. Look at your cake and decide how many rows of roses you want going up he sides. Place your icing tip in the center of where you want your bottom row and gently squeeze the bag, starting in the center, and wrap around your center 2 times. Repeat this until you have gone all the way around your cake.
  8. Start the next row up using the same method and continue until the sides are frosted.
  9. Once you have finished the sides of your cake, cover the top using the same method. Start from the outside and work your way in.
  10. Garnish with fresh lemons.

Recipe Notes

Quick Tips:
A great tutorial with photos can be found here. (Next time I decorate a rosette cake, I will post some pictures of the step-by-step instructions.)
Change it Up:
Substitute this strawberry cake recipe for the lemon cake and bake in two rounds as directed.

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Comments

  1. Ginny Lakey says

    May 21, 2013 at 6:34 pm

    Yummy, Tammy, but you didn’t mention how you changed it for the strawberry version.

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  2. Food Apparel says

    May 25, 2013 at 2:10 pm

    We just put a link to Tam’s strawberry sheet cake that you can use

    Reply

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