Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Lemon Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting


Ingredients for Cake:
  1. 1 ½ cup flour
  2. 4 eggs
  3. 2 tsp ovalette
  4. 1 tsp vanilla
  5. Grated rind from 1 lemon
  6. Juice from 1 lemon
  7. 1 ¼ cup castor sugar
  8. 1 cup Planta @ margarine @ butter   
Steps:
  1. Beat margarine with sugar until fluffy (about 15 minutes).
  2. Add vanilla, grated lemon rind and juice. Beat for a while.
  3. Add eggs one by one and finally add flour.
  4. Bake at 150 degrees Celsius for 45 minutes.

Ingredients for Frosting:
  1. 125g of Cream Cheese softened at room temperature.
  2. ¼ cup of butter (about 2 tsp) softened at room temperature.
  3. 1 cup icing sugar
  4. 1 tsp vanilla
Steps:
  1. Beat together cream cheese, vanilla and butter.
  2. Slowly add sugar until it is thick enough to apply on cake.

For layer: canned lychees or any kind of fresh fruit or canned fruit (nak letak durian pun bleh Senah oi!!!) For decorating: chocolate rice and almond flakes
Steps:
  1. Cut the cake into two layers.
  2. Layer the bottom half with cream cheese frosting.
  3. Arrange the lychees.
  4. Put the other half of the cake.
  5. Layer it with the remaining cream cheese.
  6. Sprinkle some chocolate rice and almond flakes.
p/s: if you like sweet tasting frost, by all means just add more icing sugar. I have sweet tooth but I tend to halve everything sweet in my cooking. If you like more cream, double the ingredients for frosting. 

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