Easy Lemon Cake
A great tasting Lemon cake!
Easy Lemon Cake
Ingredients
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 cups (4 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 6 eggs
- 1 teaspoon Madagascar Pure Vanilla Extract
- 1 teaspoon Madagascar Pure Vanilla Extract
- 2 eggs
- 1 oz. No-Taste Red Icing Color
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup buttermilk or sour milk*
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 Tablespoon white vinegar
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350°F.
- Grease two 8 in. round baking pans with Wilton Cake Release or vegetable pan spray.
- In large mixer bowl, beat butter, sugar and vanilla until creamy.
- Add eggs and icing color; blend well.
- Stir together flour, cocoa and salt; add alternately with buttermilk to batter mixture, beating until blended.
- Stir baking soda into vinegar; fold carefully into batter
- (do not beat).
- Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake 30-35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire rack. Cool completely.
- *To sour milk, use 1 tablespoon white vinegar plus milk to equal 1 cup.
awww, there looks like there was a typo in the name, this is a Red Velvet Cake recipe.