Lemon Buttermilk Sheet Cake #TheCakeSliceBakers

We continue to bake from The Perfect Cake by America’s Test Kitchen! The book is filled with delicious recipes that have been tested over and over, to give us a perfect bake each time! If you can follow directions then you can bake! Grab yourself a copy and join the Cake Slice Bakers bake their way through the book! 

Lemon Buttermilk Sheet Cake was my choice this month with the Cake Slice Bakers. An easy choice for me since I love lemon! 

The recipe is super easy to make. The batter is sinfully delicious! Loved the way the cake baked up. It  made my kitchen smell so incredibly delicious! Someone seriously needs to come up with a lemon batter candle scent! 

I made a third of the icing recipe, only because I had a gutt feeling this cake would be great without the thick icing. I didn’t want the sweetness of the icing to over power the flavors of the cake. 

I was right! The cake was perfect with just a thin layer of the lemon icing! Loved the buttery-lemony-vanilla flavors of the cake!  

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The Farmers’s Daughter’s Cake

It’s not too often I bake the Cake Slice bonus cake. I had cream I had to use up before it went bad, and decided it was time to test this recipe. 

For our bonus bake this month, we were given the option to bake from Maida Heatters Cakes!
I enjoyed baking from this book, and still have a few recipes bookmarked, including this one!

The  batter was super easy to put together. The recipe has no butter or oil, it’s made with heavy cream. The batter was quite tasty, and anticipated a great result.

I would love to say the cake was fantastic, but just not the case. The cake turned out dry. Pretty disappointed. Not so bad if you chase it down with ice cold milk. 

The icing was way too sweet for my liking. Glad I only made half the icing recipe. Regardless of not being the best yellow cake I’ve baked up, it disappeared quickly the next day. No one really said anything and seemed happy to have cake to snack on through out the day. 

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