Recipe: Yummy Lemon Cake with Lemon Zest Cream Cheese Icing

Lemon Cake with Lemon Zest Cream Cheese Icing.

You can cook Lemon Cake with Lemon Zest Cream Cheese Icing using 14 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Lemon Cake with Lemon Zest Cream Cheese Icing

1. It's 1 box of favorite lemon cake mix.
2. Prepare 3/4 cup of sour cream.
3. It's 1/2 cup of vegetable oil.
4. You need 1/2 cup of water.
5. It's 1/4 cup of mayonnaise.
6. Prepare 3 of eggs room temperature.
7. It's 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
8. Prepare of For the Frosting.
9. You need 8 oz of cream cheese, softened.
10. You need 1/4 cup of butter, softened.
11. You need 2 1/2 cups of powdered sugar.
12. You need 1 tsp of vanilla.
13. It's 3 tbsp of fresh lemon juice.
14. You need 3 tbsp of lemon zest.

Lemon Cake with Lemon Zest Cream Cheese Icing instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350. Grease a bundt pan.
2. Place all cake ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Mix on medium with an electric mixer until all ingredients are combined, pour in bundt pan. Place in oven..
3. For the frosting, add the butter, lemon juice and cream cheese in a large bowl. Beat with an electric mixer on medium for 2 minutes. Turn the mixer down to low gradually add the powder sugar, vanilla and lemon zest. Once combined, turn the mixer up to medium and beat for another two minutes. Spread onto cooled cake then add chocolate chips to cake and serve. Store in refrigerator for up to 5 days. Enjoy!!.