Lemon Cake w/ lemon cream cheese frosting. This luscious Lemon Cake with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting is sunshine served on a plate! It's just the right amount of sweet, melt-in-your-mouth tender, and bursting with fresh lemon flavor. This is hands-down the best lemon cake recipe I've ever tasted, anywhere, and quite possibly the best cake I've ever baked.

Once in a blue moon I will enjoy cake that isn't dripping with chocolate frosting, and decked out in a smooth chocolate cake batter. In a large bowl, mix together cream cheese and butter. Mix in vanilla extract, lemon extract, and lemon zest. You can have Lemon Cake w/ lemon cream cheese frosting using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Lemon Cake w/ lemon cream cheese frosting

Prepare of Lemon cake mix.
It's 1 box of lemon cake mix.
You need 3 of eggs.
You need 1 box of instant lemon pudding.
Prepare 1 cup of water.
It's 1/3 cup of oil.
Prepare of Frosting.
It's 8 oz of cream cheese.
You need 1/2 cup of butter.
You need 2 1/2 cup of powder sugar.
Prepare 1/4 cup of fresh lemon juice.

Mix in powder sugar until creamy, adding lemon juice to thin it out if needed. Stir in food coloring if using. This single layer lemon cake with lemon cream cheese frosting is a bite of sunshine: a light and bright lemon cake, infused with lemon syrup and topped with a smooth lemon cream cheese frosting. The cream cheese frosting is sweet and tangy, making it the perfect pairing for the lemon cake!

Lemon Cake w/ lemon cream cheese frosting instructions

preheat oven to 350.
mix cake according to box.
add lemon pudding into cake mix.

Reduce the speed to low, then add in the confectioners' sugar, lemon zest, lemon juice, lemon extract, and salt; beat until combined. Mix flour, salt and baking soda. In bowl with mixer on low speed, blend sugar and butter. Add powdered sugar and beat until frosting is smooth. Turn mixer to low and add your lemonade and vanilla.