Strawberry Lemonade Layer Cake is so good! A tender lemon layer cake is filled with strawberry-lemon jam and topped with cream-cheese strawberry frosting.
I love Southern Living magazine. If you live in the south, you are required to subscribe to Southern Living – it’s actually young, hip, cool, chic – well, you get the picture. One month, the cover photo of a Strawberry Lemonade Layer Cake captured my attention immediately! I knew I had to make it.
Lemon is one of my favorite flavors and strawberries are always a big hit with my taste buds, so just imagine the two flavors married together in a cake.
Of course, I have to change a few things up when I try a new cake recipe.
Strawberry Lemonade Cake Ingredients At A Glance
How To Store Strawberry Lemonade Layer Cake
Store this cake in an airtight container at room temperature for two days. You can also store it in an airtight container in the refrigerator and let it come to room temperature before serving.
The layers can be cooled, wrapped in plastic wrap and foil, and frozen for up to a month.
Need to wow someone? This cake does, indeed, have the wow factor and is the perfect ending to a special meal.
This cake is always a big hit!
Strawberry Lemonade Layer Cake
Strawberry Lemonade Cake is tender, delicious, and filled with a strawberry-lemon jam and topped with a cream cheese strawberry frosting.
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 4 large eggs, separated
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 3 cups cake flour
- 1 Tablespoon baking powder
- 1/8 teaspoon regular table salt
- 1 cup milk
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
Strawberry Lemonade Jam
- 1 cup seedless strawberry jam
- 2 Tablespoons fresh lemon juice
Strawberry Frosting
- 1 (8-oz.) package cream cheese, softened
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar, divided
- 2/3 cup chopped fresh strawberries
- 1 1/2 cups heavy cream
- 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º F. Grease and flour (or use cooking spray with flour) four 9-inch round cake pans.
- With an electric mixer, beat butter on medium speed until creamy. Add sugar gradually, beating until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks, one at a time, beating after each addition. Stir together flour, baking powder, and salt. Add to butter mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with the flour mixture, beating at low speed until just blended. Stir in lemon zest and juice.
- Beat egg whites in a large bowl, at high speed, until stiff peaks form. Stir 1/3 of egg whites into the batter. Fold in the remaining egg whites.
- Spoon batter evenly into the greased and floured cake pans. Bake for 18-20 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool in pan on wire racks for 10 minutes before removing from pans and cooling completely on racks.
- In a small bowl, stir the strawberry jam and 2 Tablespoons lemon juice together in a small bowl. Set aside.
- To make the frosting, beat the cream cheese and granulated sugar together until smooth. Add the chopped strawberries and beat on low until combined.
- In a separate bowl, beat the heavy cream and lemon juice until stiff peaks form. Fold the cream mixture into the strawberry cream cheese mixture and fold until combined.
- To assemble the cake, place one layer on a cake plate and spread the layer with the strawberry-lemonade jam. Repeat with the second and third layers. Top with the 4th layer and frost with strawberry frosting.
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28 comments
Alli, it is a hoot that you and I both used Southern Living as our inspiration for today’s post! Mine is from the Feb. issue though. My husband makes a fantastic Strawberry cake, he is famous for it. He told me when the new issue of SL came in last week that his is also going to make that cake! He does more cake baking than I do around here. I will have to show him your post from today! Good advice, looking forward to sampling that cake!
Next time (and there will be a next time) I make it, I will actually make the jam from scratch. I just didn’t have the time that night because the daughter and I was craving something sweet! I love my Southern Living! It’s great that your husband does most of the baking. So does my dad! I usually do the baking around here and last night I made Sandra Lee’s strawberry shortcake with splenda instead of sugar. That made it more healthier, right? I had to use up those strawberries left over from Sunday’s hit or miss. 🙂
I’ve made a cake like this one before, but yours is prettier! I missed on my exercise routine this week, but that’s about all I have to report LOL
I haven’t exercised consistently this week, either. We are leaving for Disney with the grands on Saturday and I think I’m already in vacation mode.
Ooooh….I was drooling over that very same cake the other day. I told my mom we needed to make it. Good to know it’s worth the trouble. I think Easter just found its dessert. 🙂
Thanks!
Kelly
I’m thinking the same about it being my Easter dessert. 🙂
I saw this cake on Southern Living this month and thought it looked sooooo good too. Now you’ve convinced me that I need to try it!
Go for it, Laura! It’s soooo good! 🙂
Question for you: when I made this, the cake batter was really thick (I ended up adding a little more milk). Also, the cake was fairly heavy and not light and fluffy. Was yours a heavier cake or did I just get too much flour in it?
Mine was very light, almost like a sponge cake. Did you beat the egg whites separately until stiff peaks formed and gently folded them in?Hmm, I don’t know, but I hate that it was heavy.
Yeah, I did, but I think the problem was when I sifted the flour to make my own cake flour and then didn’t re-measure it. I think I just had too much flour. Oh well! It was still good frosting and the cake was fine, just a little dry!
I bet that was it. I used regular cake flour. I’ve never tried to make my own. You’ll have to show me how!
That looks so good!! I’m not much of a baker but every once in awhile one of my boys wants to help me make something – this would be a perfect choice!
This looks yummy. I am so not good in baking this kind of things :(. Bread yes, cake no. Can I come over and just have a a piece?
Come on over!
How fun!! What a great evening with your daughter. The cake looks delish. I can never resist anything lemon 🙂
Pinned.
There’s just something about the taste of lemon and spring time . . . 🙂
What a divine looking cake! Perfect for Spring. Southern Living is a fabulous magazine even though I live in the North. Interesting that they don’t make a Northern Living magazine. It was nice to stop by your lovely blog!
Thanks, Thea! I just love Southern Living! I remember making the “white cake” on their December issue. It took two days, but was totally worth it! I made it for an event and it was a big hit.
By the way, I love your daughter’s bedroom redo! I redid my daughter’s bedroom a few months ago and I have yet to post it. I seriously need to get on that! 🙂
Alli, it sounds like such a fun evening and I love having time like that with my daughter, too. The cake looks beautiful and sounds perfect – I totally love lemon. You are SO right, bottled lemon juice – no, there are no words, it just has to be fresh! Love the Smucker’s line! 🙂 Thanks for sharing and hope you’re having a happy week!
Cindy, I just visited your latest post and I am smitten with your milkshake shooters! How adorable!
And I’m glad someone got the Smucker’s quote! 🙂
What a fun time with your daughter. I love those moments!! The cake looks amazing. I made a lemonade cake last year that I found on Pinterest and it has been a hit, but it doesn’t have jam. Also, it is super easy and made from scratch.
We did have fun! Your cake sounds fabulous, too!
That looks great. I bet you and your daughter had a great time together making it! 🙂 Some great ideas on the substitutions as well. 🙂
That cake looks delicious! My hit for the week as a chicken tettrazini that I made. It was delicious and everyone loved it!
I’m glad you tested this cake because I have been thinking about it since I saw it on SL’s cover. I’m going to hint heavily for my mom to make it for Easter.
YUM!!! OMG! I want to make this now!! Thank you for sharing atWhat We Eat Wednesday. I pinned you to our board. Thanks for linking up! 🙂
Alexis at Laugh. Eat. Learn. ♥
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