I've been dying to make a cake recently and I've always loved a cake I saw based off of a fabric she liked.
So I went for it. The citrus started leaking juice and running down with the icing, ha, but overall still really cute and the citrus flavors combined make for a super delicious cake, the lemon curd I filled it with really sealed this one for me. It's a keeper. Plus it tastes like sunshine- who wouldn't love that!
Lemon Curd:
3 egg yolks
zest of 1/2 lemon
1/4 cup lemon juice
6 tbs sugar
4 tbs butter; cold
1 combine yolks, zest, lemon juice and sugar in a small pan and whisk together
2 turn stove on medium heat and stir the mixture constantly with a wooden spoon
3 cook until the mixture can coat the back of the spoon 6-8 minutes
4 remove pan from heat and stir 1tbs at a time of the butter
5 put in a small bowl and cover with plastic wrap, make sure the plastic wrap is
laying directy on the curd so it won't make a skin.
6 place in refrigerator for at least one hour, can make this a few days in advance
citrus cake:
1 cup butter; room temp
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tps lemon zest
1 tsp orange zest
1/2 tsp lime zest
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs + 3 egg yolks
2 tablespoons orange juice
1 cup buttermilk
preheat oven 350 degrees F
1 grease pans for cakes, I made 4-6" cakes or you can make 2-8"
2 in a small bowl whisk together flour, powder, soda, salt and citrus zests
3 in another large bowl beat together sugar and butter
4 beat in the eggs/yolks one at a time
5 beat in orange juice
6 then alternate, starting with flour mixture, pouring the flour and buttermilk
in while the mixer is on low
7 divide batter into pans, smooth their tops and bake for about 20-30 minutes
for mini cakes and 30-35 for 8" cakes- check with a toothpick
assembly:
let cakes cool completely
1 cut up slices of fruit you'd like to adorn the cake
2 bring 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 cup water to a simmer in a saucepan
3 add in the citrus slices and simmer them for 25 minutes
4 remove from pan carefully and place on wax paper to cool completley
then make
this frosting but throw in a little lime zest
cut the cakes to have flat tops
place a heap of the lemon curd on top of one layer, smooth it out
place the other cake on top
frost cake with the citrus buttercream
top with sugared citrus slices
:)
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Our friends joined us for dinner to devour almost a whole mini cake- while we played with lego candies and settlers. They were both destroying us in the game, like not even close, so Joshua and I decieded to make animals with our extra pieces (because we had a ton) The giraffe was our favorite. We also made a moose, and something between a duck and pegasus.
