1 208 208 208c52 0 99. This post may contain affiliate links. The best classic, lemon cake cookies and easy lemon bundt cake recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. Starts off with yellow cake mix.
Soft and moist with a tangy lemon glaze. If you liked my Chocolate Bundt Cake and these Mini Bundt Cake Recipes, you are going to love today’s old-fashioned Summer cake. Now, you can make it from scratch but I love doctored cake mix recipes because they are so much quicker and convenient. How to make lemon cake with cake mix? Mix together eggs, cream cheese, lemon juice, extract, zest, milk, cake mix. Drizzle glaze on top and you are done.
Mix together powdered sugar, lemon juice, lemon zest, lemon extract, melted butter until smooth and creamy. Drizzle it over a cooled cake. Can you bake a regular cake in a bundt pan? No, regular cakes are not as dense or firm as a bundt cake, making it difficult to remove it from the bundt pan without falling apart and breaking. What is a substitute for lemon extract? You can use emulsion oil, which is a bit expensive but very concentrated.
You can also use fresh lemon zest to create a similar flavor profile. How to grease bundt pans and keep cake from sticking? Grease the bundt pan very well- This is very important! Generously, grease the pan with melted shortening or butter with a pastry brush and get it into all the nooks and crannies. Sprinkle it with flour and toss it around until the entire pan is covered in a thin layer of grease and flour. Invert the pan over a sink and dump the excess flour. Make sure it’s not old and worn out with scratches.
Also, don’t use a bundt pan with fancy designs and patterns. That’s because that would cause the cake to stick to the pan and make it difficult to remove it, after making. Bundt cakes are very fragile and can break easily during removal from pan. Allow the cake to rest for 10-15 minutes right side up. Don’t forget to grease the tube of the pan because the batter can stick to this and removal of cake becomes impossible without breaking. Variations Lemon Poppy Seed Bundt Cake- Mix in 2 tbsp poppy seeds in the cake batter.