Lemon Layer Cake

Dessert cake

This is another recipe that my students make all the time. But I very often don't have a camera in the classroom.

Yield: Full slab (or three 9x13 pans)

Base Layer Ingredients

8 cups flour
4 cups butter
4 cups finely chopped pecans

Cream Cheese Layer

2 blocks cream cheese
1 cup icing sugar
2 cups whipping cream (pre-whip before adding to cream cheese & sugar)

Lemon Layer

4 pies worth of lemon pudding/pie filling or Lemon Curd

Topping layer

2 cups Whipping Cream
2 Tbsp Icing Sugar
1 tsp Vanilla

Base Layer Directions

  1. Mix all the 1st layer ingredients together until crumbly
  2. Press into pan and bake at 350 for 15
  3. Let cool before adding second layer

Cream Cheese Layer Directions

  1. Beat cream cheese and icing sugar together well
  2. Fold whipped cream into the cream cheese mixture
  3. Spread over crust

Lemon Layer Directions

  1. Prepare lemon pie filling according to the directions on the package
  2. Cool, stirring often. Pour over cheese layer

Topping Layer Directions

  1. Beat cream, sugar & Vanilla until stiff peaks form
  2. Spread over lemon layer
  3. Garnish with chopped pecans, slivered almonds or zested lemon rind

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