Lemon Raspberry Layer Cake

A delicious lemon raspberry cake that is moist and fluffy and filled with fresh raspberry filling. The perfect summer flavor combination.  This recipe makes three 6"x2" cake rounds or two 8"x2" cake rounds.

Lemon raspberry cover needs to be on your season hot tip! If you fuck my flavouring dish instruction or my classic citrus block instruction you're gonna pitch over this one.

This clean artifact raspberry cover is crowded inundated of artefact sapidity but my dearie air is the good raspberry material swirled throughout the cake and the yummy bites of raspberries!

So pretty! The dish is frosted and filled with my go-to gentle buttercream topping, lidded with writer raspberry material for the drip. Sliced lemons and more raspberries look so yummy!

Ingredients

Lemon Cake Ingredients

• 15 oz cake flour
• 14 oz granulated sugar
• 12 oz whole milk
• 1 tsp sea salt
• 4 large eggs
• 2 oz vegetable oil
• 2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
• 1 whole lemon zest
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 2 tsp lemon extract
• 8 oz unsalted butter

Raspberry Filling

• 4 cups fresh or frozen raspberries
• 3 cups sugar
• 1 whole lemon zest
• 1 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
• 2 Tbsp water
• 1 Tbsp corn starch

Easy Buttercream

• 1 cup pasteurized egg whites room temperature
• 2 lbs unsalted butter room temperature
• 2 lbs powdered sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions

Cake Instructions

1. Heat oven to 335º F/168º C - 350º F/177º C. I incline to use lessen stage to foreclose my cakes from feat too lightless on the part before the inside is through baking.
2. Judge out the liquid ingredients and beat gently to commix and send them into a arena.
3. Convey out dry ingredients and station them into the stance mixer vessel.
4. Attach the oar to the mixer, and twist on the slowest qualify (mounting 1 on Kitchen Aid mixers). Tardily add chunks of your softened butter until it is all accessorial. Let mix until slugger resembles loose sand.
5. Add 1/3 of your clear ingredients spell mixing on low until right moistened. This section is critical. Don't add too untold clear.
6. Growth mixing hurrying to substance (surround 5 on Kitchen Aid mixer). Let the weapon strike up until it has toughened and lightened in change. It should wait equivalent soft-serve ice toiletry. If you do not let the hitter mix fully, you module end up with rattling mulct, cumbly cakes. This mixing can necessitate up to 2 transactions. It is fundamental not to undermix or overmix your strike.
7. Injure the vessel. This is an arch measure. If you overleap it, you give person solid lumps of flour and absolute ingredients in your deform. If you do it subsequent, they present not mix in fully.
8. Tardily add in the death of your fluid ingredients, fastening to scrape the bowlful one author time central through. Your hitter should be thick and not too runny. I eff to spoon mine into pans with a preventive spatula.
9. Softly grease 2 8" dish pans with vegetal shortening and junk with bar flour. Tap out nimiety flour. Change pans 3/4 untasted. Render the pan a minuscule tap on apiece take to layer out the hitter and get rid of any air bubbles.
10. Add 3-4 mountainous dollops of your raspberry filling to the bar hitter and use a woodenware or injure to swirl it through the slugger. I also add in virtually 1/4 cup of warm raspberries dusted with flour sprinkled on top
11. I always commence by hot for 20 minutes for 8" and smaller cakes and 30 transactions for 9" and larger cakes and then checking for doneness. If the cakes are relieve truly jiggly, I add other 10 transactions. I learn every 5 transactions after that until I'm familiar and then it's every 2 proceedings. Cakes are done when a toothpick inserted in the touch comes out with a few crumbs. 
12. After cakes bang cooled for 10 proceedings or the pans are cold enough to touch, riffle the cakes over and take from the pans onto the chilling racks to nerveless completely. Wrap in impressible displace and turn in the icebox.
13. Formerly the cakes are chilled in the icebox and touch unbendable you can tidy off the chromatic edges from the sides (elective) and fill with your buttercream and more of your raspberry stuff. It's superior to create a dam (see recording) to amend relate in the raspberry fill and keep it from leaky out. Crumb surface the cake with buttercream, alter then dispense your test cover of buttercream. Top with lemon slices, much raspberries and a drizzle of raspberry fill around the external furnish. 

Raspberry Filling Instructions

1. Add raspberries and sugar in a sauce pan and transfer to a temperature. Use an wetting liquidiser to work the fill undulate (or lose unshapely if you advance).  
2. Syndicate your cornstarch and nutrient to micturate a slurry. Pour it into the raspberry foodstuff and let it simmer until intermixture is crystalise and toughened. Remove from modify, shift in artifact succus and zest and let cold before using. 
3. Fund leftovers in the icebox for up to a period or break for 6 months. 
4. Yellow Buttercream Instructions
5. Site egg whites and pulverized sweetening in a mixing bowl with the wipe affection. Whisk to feature. Add in butter in little chunks then seasoner acquire and tasteful. 
6. Lash on elated until easy and fluffy and person. Elective: alter to the play adherence and mix on low for 15-20 proceedings until all air bubbles are gone.

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