Lemon Berry Sour Cream Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 23
- Yields:
-
16 slices
ingredients
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CAKE
- 4 egg whites
- 2.46 ml cream of tartar
- 59.14 ml sugar
- 59.14 ml butter, softened
- 29.58 ml butter, softened
- 354.88 ml sugar
- 8 egg yolks
- 236.59 ml plain yogurt
- 473.18 ml flour
- 7.39 ml baking soda
- 0.61 ml salt
- 1 lemon, juice and zest of
- 453.59 g strawberry
- 170.09 g red raspberries or 170.09 g golden raspberries
- 170.09 g blueberries
- 170.09 g blackberries
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FROSTING
- 59.14 ml butter, softened
- 29.58 ml butter, softened
- 177.44 ml confectioners' sugar
- 340.19 g softened cream cheese
- 177.44 ml sour cream
- 9.85 ml lemon zest
- 29.58 ml lemon juice
directions
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CAKE:
- In small mixing bowl, beat the egg whites with cream of tartar until foamy.
- Gradually add the 1/4 cup sugar, beating constantly, until stiff peaks form.
- Set aside.
- In large mixing bowl, beat butter and sugar together.
- Gradually beat in the egg yolks, then the yogurt.
- Stir together flour, baking soda and salt and gradually blend into creamed mixture.
- Stir in lemon zest and juice.
- Gently fold the egg whites into the egg yolk mixture.
- Turn into 2 greased and floured 9 inch round cake pans.
- Bake in preheated 350°F oven until top springs back when lightly touched or a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, about 30 minutes.
- Let cakes cool in pans on racks for 5 minutes.
- Turn cakes out of pans onto racks and invert so they cool bottom side down.
- Cool completely before frosting.
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TO ASSEMBLE:
- Rinse and drain all the berries and let dry on paper towels.
- Hull and quarter the strawberries.
- Place one cake layer, topside down, on cake plate.
- Spread with half the lemon sour cream frosting.
- Arrange half the berries over the cake.
- Top with remaining cake layer, bottom side down.
- Spread frosting over top of cake layer and cover with berries.
- If you have any berries left over, scatter them over each slice of cake as you serve it.
- LEMON SOUR CREAM FROSTING: (Make it 1st).
- Cream softened butter; beat in confectioners’ sugar, then beat in softened cream cheese, sour cream, grated lemon zest and lemon juice.
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