Lemon-Lime Layer Cake
photo by Gohogsgirl
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 17
- Serves:
-
16
ingredients
-
Cake
- cooking spray
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
- 1⁄2 cup butter, softened
- 3⁄4 cup egg substitute
- 1 tablespoon grated lemon rind
- 1 tablespoon grated lime rind
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
- 2 1⁄4 cups flour
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1⁄3 cups low-fat buttermilk
-
Icing
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
- 1 teaspoon grated lime rind
- 1 teaspoon fresh lime juice
- 1 (8 ounce) package reduced-fat cream cheese, softened
- 2 1⁄2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Coat 2 (9-inch) round cake pans with cooking spray; line bottoms of pans with wax paper. Coat wax paper with cooking spray.
- Place sugar and butter in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until well blended (about 5 minutes).
- Add egg substitute and the next 3 ingredients (through 1 tablespoon juice); beat well.
- Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt, stirring well with a whisk.
- Add flour mixture and buttermilk alternately to sugar mixture.
- Spoon batter into prepared pans.
- Bake for 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool in pans on a wire rack 10 minutes; remove cakes from pans.
- Carefully peel off wax paper.
- Cool completely on wire racks coated with cooking spray.
- To prepare icing, place 1 teaspoon lemon rind and next 3 ingredients (through cream cheese) in a medium bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until smooth (about 1 minute).
- Gradually add powdered sugar, beating at low speed just until blended (do not overbeat).
- Cover and chill for 30 minutes.
- Place 1 cake layer on a plate; spread with 1/2 cup icing.
- Top with remaining cake layer.
- Spread remaining icing over top and sides of cake.
- Chill 1 hour.
- Store cake loosely covered in refrigerator.
Questions & Replies
Got a question?
Share it with the community!
Reviews
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Vino Girl
United States
My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
We live on several peaceful wooded acres on a cute little river in rural NE Wisconsin, with a cranky old-lady Burmese and whatever stray outdoor cats that have decided to adopt us on any given day. The cute puppy in the picture is Jake, our Elhew-bred English Pointer that we brought home on Easter weekend 2007. I've also got 2 painted turtles named Dennis and Fuzz, and a bunch of fish (koi and goldfish, along with the guppies & swordtails in the turtle tank).
I USUALLY eat and cook healthy, but I rarely pass up dessert, either. I do not eat red meat, and try to limit other animal products, too. I love to bake, although I seem to collect a lot of scone and biscotti recipes which I NEVER get around to making. I bake and eat A LOT of cookies and muffins... I almost always reduce the sugar by 1/4 and use whole wheat pastry flour for at least part of the flour. Those two changes do so much to make recipes healthier without compromising taste. I try to reduce fat whenever I can, too, but while I want to eat healthy, I still want to ENJOY what I eat!!!
I seem to give a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews here - I seem to have a pretty good sense of what I like by looking at a recipe before I try it. Thank you to anyone that tries my recipes in return, or photographs them.
Amber:
<img src="http://netnet.net/~mkburie/amber2.jpg">
........And a grown up Jake (one year old in January 2008) :) -
<img src="http://netnet.net/~mkburie/JAKE111307.JPG">
Charlotte (May 27, 1992-June 1, 2009):
<img src="http://netnet.net/~mkburie/Charlott.jpg">
Ashley: Adopted October 8, 1996 - Passed Away January 6, 2009
<img src="http://netnet.net/~mkburie/ashley2.jpg">
Mike: September 26, 1994 - March 19, 2004<img src="http://netnet.net/~mkburie/mike1997-lr.JPG">....
<a href='http://www.niftymaps.com/visitor-map.php?id=36321'><img src='http://i.niftymaps.com/36321.png' alt='Click to zoom in on my visitor map!' border='0'></a>Create your free world <a href='http://www.niftymaps.com/' target='_blank'>visitor maps</a>