- prep: 40 min
- cook: 30 min
- total: 1 hr 10 min
Summary
This perfectly moist, tender and soft lemon layer cake is iced in a wonderful lemon cream cheese frosting and bursting with irresistibly zingy and tangy lemon flavor!!!
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1/3 cup unsalted butter (room temperature)
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 2 3/4 cups all purpose flour (sifted)
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/4 cup sour cream
- 1/3 cup whole milk
- 1 tbsp fresh lemon zest
- 1 1/2 tsp lemon extract
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup unsalted butter (room temperature)
- 8 oz cream cheese (room temperature)
- 4 cups confectioner's sugar
- 2 tsp heavy whipping cream
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tsp lemon extract
- pinch of salt
Instructions
Click Here For Step-By-Step Instructions
Tags
Nutrition
Nutritional Info

- Servings Per Recipe: 18
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 590 % Daily Value *
- Total Fat: 30 g 45.6%
- Saturated Fat: 14 g 72.04%
- Trans Fat: 1 g %
- Cholesterol: 61 mg 20.37%
- Sodium: 282 mg 11.74%
- Calcium: 57 mg 5.66%
- Potassium: 44 mg 1.27%
- Magnesium: 0 mg 0%
- Iron: 1 mg 5.21%
- Zinc: 0 mg 0%
- Total Carbohydrate: 79 g %
- Dietary Fiber: 1 g 2.2%
- Sugar: 63 g
- Protein: 4 g
- Alcohol: 1 g
- Omega 3 Fatty Acid: 0 g
- Omega 6 Fatty Acid: 1 g
- Vitamin A 13.65%
- Vitamin C 0.72%
- Vitamin D 0.09%
- * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Diabetes Exchanges
- Exchange - Fat6
- Exchange - Fruit0
- Exchange - NonFat Milk0
- Exchange - Other Carbs4
- Exchange - Starch1
- Exchange - Vegetables0
- Exchange - Lean Meat0
- Exchange - Alcohol0
MyPlate Info
- MyPlate - Grain Total1 oz-eq
- MyPlate - Vegetable Total0 c
- MyPlate - Fruit0 c
- MyPlate - Dairy0 c
- MyPlate - Protein Total0 oz-eq