#Raspberry #Lemon #Cake
My lemon raspberry cake recipe with lemon buttercream is made with yogurt, fresh raspberries and lots of lemon juice for an old fashioned cake from scratch which is perfect anytime day ... or maybe I should say several times a day ;)
My lemon and raspberry cake is delicious but not difficult at all. It's just the thing with a cup of tea or coffee for an afternoon.
Yes, you can certainly serve it as a dessert after dinner, but it seems a shame to waste such a good cake on people who have just had a big meal. And anyway, I'm always looking for ways to put more cake into my day :)
This cake batter is assembled a little differently from most of the cakes I make ...
the 3 eggs are separated, the yolks being creamed with butter and sugar, while the whites are beaten and incorporated into the dough. This gives the cake a light sponge cake texture which is really nice.
Normally when I see the words eggs and separated in a recipe, I cringe, but actually and it's super fast to beat the whites, so it's very little extra effort.
Some homemade treats are made to wrap and bring ~ to the sale of pastries, to the group of books, to the office ... but others, like layered cakes, are intended to stay at home and sit on the kitchen counter, preferably under a glass dome.
The raspberry treats on this blog can cover the entire range, from small lemon blondes to raspberries to more exotic raspberry pavlovas. In both cases, the emphasis is on the unique and glorious flavor of fresh raspberries.
Fresh berries are best, but frozen will do the trick
The flavors of this cake really sing, partly because the whole raspberries are folded in the dough just before baking. Some of them break when you stir them, but most stay whole and provide bursts of tangy berry flavor with each bite.
Your reward for light like air yogurt cake is the thick layer of incredibly soft lemon butter pie cream. It's like lemon fudge, only better :)
I may be a minority here, but I love the cold cake from the fridge. It does wonderful things with buttercream.
