I really want to make a lemon cakes for my doctor's birthday this week and really just don't know what else I should use as a filling, because I love lemon cake just out of the oven with a cold cup of milk. 
I know weird huh, but for them I want something good. Any lemon cake combinations that are a hit for you guys please share. Thanks a million and one!
I use either Lemon Curd (you can find it in the jelly/jam aisle) or make lemon buttercream.
Enjoy!
I've used strawberry filling (fresh berries cooked with sugar/water/vanilla/thickener) and have also used lemon pudding mixed with an equal amount of buttercream as a filling for lemon cake. It softens the lemon-ness (if that's a word) of the pudding and compliments lemon cake well.
It's the perfect season for lemon cake. Hope your doctor likes it!
Thanks for the replies, but I guess I should have mentioned one of them is allergic to berries (all). I thought of strawberries too. Sorry again. But curd sounds good. Any other suggestions?
I personally love chocolate with lemon.
I think a nice whipped dark chocolate ganache would be very tasty.
Other than that I wouldn't know what to use other than berry filling of some sort.
Natalie
I think I'm going to do a lemon curd but I'll add a half of heavy cream to make a whipped lemon filling. Thanks to all for your suggestions.
One of the most popular cakes I made for a tea house here in our town was a lemon cake. It was soooo easy - bake a lemon cake, take a can of lemon pie filling - use 1/3 of that can to fill the cake. Use the other 2/3 to mix with an 8 ounce tub of cool whip - mix it really good (it will look like it has curdled at first) then use that as the icing! Very refrshing cake and they would buy several of them every week!
I have a kick-a$$ lemon filling recipe but I can't find it right now!! Now I'm craving lemon cake LOL!
this may sound weird but last week I ate a ginger cookie with lemon filling at costco. It was so yummy. Do you thing a ginger flavored buttercream would be good?
I already have a sever craving for cinnamon bc right now so maybe I'm just in a spicy mood.
mommachris
how about coconut - I like the lemon creme idea too
Here is my Lemon filling recipe.. I HATE canned lemon filling (it tastes Canny to me)
I have won best Lemon meringue pie 3 times with this one at the county fair.
JaimeAnn's Lemon filling
1 & 1/2 cups sugar
1/3 cup plus 1 Tablespoon cornstarch
1 & 1/2 cups water
3 egg yolks slightly beaten
3 Tablespoons butter
2 - 3 teaspoons lemon rind (grated)
3/4 cup fresh lemon juice
Mix sugar and cornstarch in med saucepan, gradually stir in water.
Cook over med heat, stirring constantly till mixture comes to a full boil.
Boil and stir 1-2 minutes. Gradually stir at least half of hot mixture
into egg yolks. Blend it back into to pan and remaining hot mixture. Boil and stir 2-3 minutes longer, if you don't your filling will taste eggy. Remove from heat add butter, lemon rind, & lemon juice. Either use as pie filling or refrigerate and use to fill pastries or cakes.
Oh I forgot sometimes I layer it with a light cream cheese filling in my pies for Lemon Supreme Pie.
I bet it would be good layered in lemon cake too.
Supreme Cream Cheese Filling
12 ounces cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup confectioners' sugar
1 1/2 cups whipped topping or whipped cream
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Fold in whipped topping and lemon juice. Refrigerate.
I mix orange marmalade with my buttercream, customers love it.
How about a lemon butter cookie layer??? Oh gosh, like Lemon Coolers(do they even make those anymore??? I could eat my weight in those!) Lemon cake, lemon buttercream with lemon butter cookie either whole or crushed up in the buttercream or bettercreme....oh yum!
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