limoncello cake
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the cake recipe is not entirely mine, but i have tweeked a few ingredients...although the frosting is mine. my taste testers gave it 2 thumbs up too! and why not? who doesn't love lemon?
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yield
6 -8 people
prep time
45 Min
cook time
45 Min
Ingredients For limoncello cake
- INGREDIENTS
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18 ozany lemon cake mix
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3 ozinstant lemon pudding
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4large eggs
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1/2 cvegetable oil
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1/2 clemon juice
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1/2 climoncello- any lemon liqueur will do
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1lemon, finely grated zest
- GLAZE
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1/4 lbbutter
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1 csugar
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1/2-1/3 climoncello
- FROSTING
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16 ozsoftened mascarpone
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2 cricotta cheese
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3/4 cpowdered sugar
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3 Tbsplemon juice
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1 cchopped pecans (optional)
How To Make limoncello cake
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1preheat oven to 350 degrees.
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2add lemon cake mix, lemon pudding, eggs, oil, lemon juice, limoncello, and lemon zest in large mixing bowel till smooth.
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3spray bottom of 9x13" pyrex dish, then i place a sheet of parchment paper in bottom to prevent burning bottom of cake (again) then i sprayed the top of the parchment before pouring in the cake batter.
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4bake for 45 minutes. cake should be lightly golden on top.
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5while cake is baking in oven, make your glaze in a large saucepan. add butter and sugar and bring to a full boil to disolve the sugar, then remove from heat and add lemoncello. i usually get a little heavy handed adding this for a little extra zing.
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6once cake is through baking, remove from oven and start pricking holes in cake with fork. slowly pour warm glaze over hot cake...cool till room temp.
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7in a large mixing bowel, cream together softened mascarpone and ricotta cheese. then add powdered sugar and lemon juice. add pecans last if desired. frost thoroughly cooled cake and refrigerate
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