Lemon Sheet Cake – Cookies and Cups

This simple Lemon Sheet Cake recipe is extremely moist and ideal for a celebration or vacation dessert. The tender cake is topped with tart and creamy lemon icing that I might eat with a spoon!

Ensure to strive my Lemon Cream Pie Recipe too! It’s improbable!

Do-it-yourself Lemon Sheet Cake

This lemon sheet cake recipe is one in every of my newest obsessions. The one downside with this cake is that I’ll eat the entire thing! I’m the one one in my home who likes lemon desserts…bizarre, proper? All of them appear to like lemon sweet, lemonade, lemon/lime soda…however not lemon cake? Makes ZERO sense to me! However the beauty of this recipe is it’s good for journey, which implies any social gathering you’re invited to, that is the dessert to carry…that approach I get a slice, however I’m not tempted with a complete cake on the counter!

What To Anticipate With This Sheet Cake Recipe:

What makes this cake so nice is that there’s no stand mixer or hand mixer required, which means it’s an EASY recipe! It’s fairly foolproof. The cake is so tremendous moist and tender, and the icing is tart and creamy. It makes such a reasonably presentation in the event you add these little lemon wedges on high too. It’s the right Easter/springtime/summer time cake recipe! 

What You Will Want/Substances:

• All goal flour
• Granulated sugar
• Baking soda
• Kosher salt
• Lemon zest and juice
• Butter 
• Water
• Lemon juice
• Eggs
• Bitter cream
• Vanilla extract
• Butter 
• Powdered Sugar

How To Make Texas Sheet Cake:

1. Prep: Preheat the oven to 375°F. Coat a 15x10x1- inch pan, also referred to as a jelly roll pan, with nonstick baking spray, or you may grease the pan with butter. Definitely you may line the cake pan with parchment paper in the event you want, but it surely’s not obligatory because you’re serving this proper out of the pan!
2. Make the Cake Batter: Whisk the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and lemon zest collectively in a big bowl and set the dry components apart. Subsequent seize a medium saucepan and add within the butter, water, and lemon juice. Warmth this over medium excessive warmth and convey it to a boil. As soon as it’s reached a boil take away it from the warmth. Pour the recent butter combination proper into the flour combination and stir to mix. Then you definately’ll add within the bitter cream, eggs, and vanilla and stir till clean. Pour the batter into the prepped pan.
3. Bake: Bake for 20-25 minutes till the middle is about, or till a toothpick inserted within the heart comes out clear. Place the cake pan on a wire rack and permit it to chill the cake within the pan for 15-20 minutes when you are prepping your icing. 
4. For the icing: Add the butter and lemon juice to a medium saucepan and cook dinner over medium warmth till the butter melts. Alternately you may do that within the microwave in a big, microwave-safe bowl. Stir the butter and lemon juice collectively to mix after which add within the powdered sugar slowly, whisking till mixed and clean. As soon as the icing is prepared pour it everywhere in the cake whereas it’s nonetheless a little bit heat. This permits a little bit little bit of the icing to soak into the cake, whereas nonetheless leaving a pleasant, thick layer of icing on high. 
5. To Serve: Enable the cake to chill fully for the prettiest slices. I additionally wish to garnish with some recent lemon slices or recent berries, like blueberries, raspberries, or strawberries. However word the fruit will leak a little bit juice onto the icing, so I do that step proper earlier than serving.

Ideas:

This lemon cake recipe is basically fast and straightforward to make, however I do have a number of ideas for you for achievement!

• Sift the powered sugar for a lump free icing. Irrespective of how a lot I whisk icing, I all the time find yourself with a number of powdered sugar lumps. The positive approach to stop this from occurring is to sift the powdered sugar earlier than including, eliminating any massive lumps!
• Use recent lemon juice. Recent lemon juice is basically key to this cake. The icing is so candy and creamy, however the tartness of recent lemon juice actually stands out! Utilizing a lemon squeezer is a large assist!
• I exploit this pan to make all my sheet muffins. It was a present given to me at Christmas and I find it irresistible a lot. It’s completely nonstick and I barely must grease my pan. Plus, it bakes evenly and has nice handles! 

Variations:

1. You may make this right into a Lemon Texas Sheet Cake with the addition of nuts. I feel some chopped pistachios  can be scrumptious! Sprinkle among the chopped nuts proper into the lemon frosting earlier than pouring in on the cake. Ensure to take a look at my Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake Recipe and my White Texas Sheet Cake Recipe
2. Change up the icing recipe and make it a Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting as a substitute! Merely soften 4 ounces of cream cheese and 4 ounces of butter collectively. Add within the 1/3 cup of lemon juice, and three cups of powdered sugar.
3. Make this cake any taste citrus you want, simply swap out the lemon zest and juice with both lime or orange!

How To Retailer:

This cake might be saved at room temperature for as much as 3 days. Cowl it hermetic with plastic wrap proper within the pan!

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