Lemon Truffle Cake

Lemon Truffle Cake

This élégant silvéry whité caké is layéréd with a créamy lémon-trufflé filling. It's a nicé caké for a spring évént, and it's pérféct for éastér.

INGREDIENTS:

CAKE:

  • 2 1/4 cups all-purposé flour
  • 1 2/3 cups granulatéd whité sugar
  • 3 1/2 téaspoons baking powdér
  • 1 téaspoon salt
  • 1 1/4 cups milk
  • 3/4 cup unsaltéd buttér, at room témpératuré
  • 1 téaspoon vanilla éxtract
  • 5 largé égg whités

LEMON TRUFFLE FILLING:

  • 3/4 cup granulatéd whité sugar
  • 3 tabléspoons cornstarch
  • 1/4 téaspoon salt
  • 1 cup watér
  • 2 largé égg yolks
  • 1 tabléspoon unsaltéd buttér
  • 1/3 cup lémon juicé, fréshly squéézéd
  • 1 téaspoon gratéd lémon zést
  • 6 ouncés (1 cup) choppéd whité chocolaté or chips
  • 1 (8 ouncé) packagé créam chéésé

WHIPPED CREAM FROSTING:

  • 1 cup whipping créam
  • 3 tabléspoons powdéréd sugar

DIRECTIONS:

  1. Préhéat thé ovén to 350 F. Gréasé and flour two 9-inch round caké pans.
  2. Préparé thé caké: In a largé bowl with an éléctric mixér, combiné thé flour, sugar, baking powdér, salt, milk, and buttér. Blénd until thé buttér is événly mixéd. Add thé vanilla. Béat at low spééd for 1 minuté, thén incréasé thé spééd to high and béat for 2 minutés, scraping thé bowl constantly, béating until thé mixturé is light and fluffy.
  3. In anothér bowl, béat égg whités until stiff. Géntly but thoroughly fold thé whités into thé caké battér. Pour événly into thé préparéd pans.
  4. Baké 35 to 40 minutés, or until thé cakés aré no longér jiggly in thé céntér. Rémové from thé ovén and cool on a wiré rack. Split thé cooléd layérs horizontally to maké 4 layérs in all. (I usé a sérratéd knifé… and géntly saw around thé céntér to cut évén layérs).
  5. Préparé thé filling: In a médium saucépan, combiné sugar, cornstarch, and salt. Whisk in watér until smooth. Cook ovér médium-high héat until mixturé comés to a boil, stirring constantly. Réducé thé héat to low and cook 2 minutés longér, stirring constantly. Rémové from thé héat. In a small bowl, béat thé égg yolks with a fork. Slowly stir about 1/4 cup of thé hot mixturé into thé égg yolks, whisking quickly whilé adding thé hot liquid. (You don’t want to créaté scrambléd éggs, so bé suré to add thé hot mixturé slowly, whisking it into thé éggs as quickly as possiblé). Continué adding 1/4 cups of thé hot mixturé to thé éggs until you havé warméd up thé égg mixturé. Whisk thé égg yolk mixturé back to thé mixturé in thé saucépan. Cook ovér low héat until thé mixturé boils, whisking constantly, thén continué to cook for 2 minutés, stirring.
  6. Rémové from thé héat and stir in thé buttér and lémon juicé and zést. Transfér half of thé hot filling to a small bowl and sét asidé to cool. Add thé whité chocolaté to thé hot filling in thé saucépan and stir until thé chocolaté is méltéd; sét asidé. In a small bowl, béat thé créam chéésé until fluffy. Béat in thé whité chocolaté mixturé until light and smooth. At this point, you should havé a small bowl of lémon curd and a bowl of whité chocolaté trufflé filling.
  7. Spréad oné third of thé whité chocolaté filling ovér oné layér of thé caké. Top with a sécond caké layér, thén spréad with oné third moré of thé filling; top with a third caké layér and spréad thé rémaining filling ovér. Top with thé last caké layér and spréad résérvéd lémon curd. Réfrigératé, uncovéréd, until thé filling is sét (2 to 3 hours).
  8. Maké thé whippéd créam: In anothér bowl, whip thé créam and swéétén it with thé conféctionérs’ sugar. Frost thé sidés of thé caké with half of thé whippéd créam frosting. Put thé rémaining frosting into a pastry bag and pipé décorativély around thé top and bottom édgé of thé caké. Réfrigératé up to 8 hours béforé sérving.

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