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Lemon Cheese Cake

Total Time
1h 5m
23m prep · 42m cook
Servings
4 people
Rating
Difficulty
Medium
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🥬 Vegetarian 🥜 Nut-Free ☪️ Halal ✡️ Kosher

This lemon cheese cake recipe isn't made with cheese — it is a layer cake that's filled with a tangy homemade lemon curd (which is another name for lemon cheese). If you like, use your favorite scratch recipe for the cake, but I usually like to simplify all I can.

Ingredients

  • 1 , 15.25 ounce
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 , 3.5 ounce
  • 3 large eggs
  • 0.33 cups vegetable oil
  • 1.5 cups white sugar
  • 1 cup butter
  • 1 cup fresh lemon juice
  • 6 large egg yolks
  • 0.25 cups all-purpose flour
  • 4 tablespoons grated lemon zest

Instructions

  1. 1

    Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour three 9-inch round cake pans.

  2. 2

    Mix together cake mix, milk, instant vanilla pudding, 3 whole eggs, and oil in a large bowl. Pour batter into the prepared pans.

  3. 3

    Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of cakes comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Set aside cakes on wire racks to cool completely.

  4. 4

    Combine sugar, butter, lemon juice, 6 egg yolks, flour, and lemon zest in the top half of a double boiler. Cook, stirring constantly, over medium heat until mixture is thick enough to spread. Remove from heat and allow lemon curd to cool completely.

  5. 5

    Run a knife around the edges of the cake pans. Invert cakes; spread cooled lemon curd between cake layers.

Nutrition Facts

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