Food & Drink

Easy Lemon Cake

March 31, 2018

I LOVE to bake. Give me an apron, a recipe, and delicious smells coming from my oven and I am h-a-p-p-y. I also have a major sweet tooth, so unfortunately I have to limit the amount that I bake so I can make sure I still fit into my jeans.

While I typically enjoy baking something from scratch (watching something come together and knowing you put the effort and fresh ingredients into it is one of my favorite parts of baking), there are some days where I don’t have time or it’s just not worth the extra effort. But when the end result is as delicious as this Lemon Cake…who cares?! It’s the perfect dessert to whip up last minute for holidays, dinner parties, work events, etc.

I also have a weakness for anything lemon flavored (and chocolate chip cookies…and pink sprinkled donuts…), especially during Spring and Summer. This cake is helping me get through these last few cold weeks before Spring finally arrives!

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Easy_Lemon_Cake

Before we dive in, I have to be real with ya’ll…this shoot didn’t go quite as planned! First, I realized as I was mixing everything together that my ingredients listed out lemon flavored Jell-O®…but that the directions listed out lemon flavored Jell-O® PUDDING. I had already dumped the original mix in, so decided to wing it and see what happened (spoiler…it was still delicious but maybe just use the pudding if you want to make this at home :)). Second, my four month old refused to nap the entire time we were baking/shooting and my husband was out of the house so it was a lot of pausing, baby bouncing, baking, baby feeding, etc, which made the shoot take at least twice as long as it should have. And finally, I started pouring that delicious icing all over the warm cake ON the stand…which made it pool in the middle and drip all off the edges onto my counter. But, you know what? You win some, you lose some and the cake still came out smelling and tasting delicious which at the end of the day is all that matters!

So with that being said…I present to you my Easy Lemon Cake:

 

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Easy_Lemon_Cake

Easy_Lemon_Cake

Easy_Lemon_Cake
Our little bubs woke up while we were finishing up so he got to join in the photoshoot!

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Baking completely wore Luke out 🙂

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Ingredients:

Cake:

1 (18.25 oz) package lemon cake

1 (3 oz) package lemon flavored Jell-O® pudding mix

3/4 cup vegetable oil (I subbed coconut oil for this)

3/4 cup 7-up®/Sprite® (I subbed Sprite Zero® for this)

1/4 teaspoon vanilla

4 eggs

Glaze:

1/3 cup lemon juice

2 cups confectioners’ sugar

1 tablespoon water

 

Directions:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease and flour a 9×13-inch pan

Cake:

Put cake mix in large bowl and add Jell-O® mix. Mix well, then add eggs and beat well. Add oil, Sprite, and vanilla extract. Stir to combine. Pour in bundt pan and bake for 40-45 minutes.

Glaze:

In a medium bowl, combine lemon juice and confectioners’ sugar. Add water. Poke holes in the top of the cake and pour glaze over (I recommend doing this on a wire rack with a tray or plate underneath so you can catch the yummy goodness that drips off and re-pour it on top of the cake until it’s soaked in and perfect…hindsight really is 20/20!)

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