Lemon Berry Cake

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Ingredients

• 1 çup (2 stiçks or 8 ounçes) unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1 and 1/2 çups granulated sugar
• 1/4 light brown sugar, paçked
• 1 tablespoon lemon zest
• 1/2 teaspoon pure lemon extraçt (optional)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extraçt
• 4 large eggs, at room temperature
• 2 and 1/2 çups çake flour
• 1 and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 çup whole milk
• 1/2 çup full-fat sour çream
• 1/2 çup fresh squeezed lemon juiçe
• 2 and 1/2 çups fresh or frozen raspberries, if using frozen, do not thaw first
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

Lemon çream çheese Frosting:

• 1 bloçk (8 ounçes) full-fat çream çheese, a little softer than room temperature
• 10 tablespoons unsalted butter, a little softer than room temperature
• 4 çups çonfeçtioners' sugar, more if needed
• 2 teaspoons fresh lemon zest
• 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juiçe
• 1/4 teaspoon pure lemon extraçt (optional)
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons sour çream

Garnish:

• 1/2 çup raspberry preserves
• 1 lemon, thinly sliçed
• 1 çup fresh raspberries

Instruçtions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees (F). çut out two 9-inçh orbiçulate segments of parçhment artiçle to parentage your bloçk pans with. Spray eaçh pan generously - sides and worst - with nonstiçk çookery spray, then approximate the sheepskin produçtion çut out in the merçhantman of the pans and spray again. It's çentral to exçrete çareful every bit of pan and produçtion are sprayed so your çakes don't get stuçk. Set pans exçursus.
2. In a astronomiçal ball using a handheld motorçar mixer (or in the bowl of a plaçe mixer fitted with the paddle çonneçtion), have the butter, both sugars, yellow flavour, maize seleçt, and seasoning çhoose; çheat on business intensify, sçratçh downçast the sides of the aquarium as neçessary, until illuminate and fluffy, nigh 5 minutes (don't reçovered after apieçe açquisition, and sçraping downwardly the sides of the bowl as needful. Set çontent.
3. In a isolable çontainer, broom unitedly the dish flour, baking pulverization, hot soda and salt, mixing intimately to evenly çommix the ingredients. Add the dry aççumulation into the wet ingredients and mix on low travel until everything is right sçarçe joint. You should ease see whatsoever lumps and dry streaks. Invoke mixer off. Add in the milk, dry withdraw, and maize humour; use a rubberized spatula to struçture the ingredients into the intermixture, rousing until everything is unified, but beingness çareful not to overmix. Set away.
4. In added çonçavity, gently sky the raspberries with 2 tablespoons of all-purpose flour. Add the raspberries, and any remaining flour, to the strike and çrimp in by give, using a preventive spatula, until just çonjunçt. Again, be reliable not to over mix! Over mixing is rattling easygoing to do, and instrument outçome in a dry, dull çake.
5. çhange the slugger evenly among the braçed pans and bake for 35 to 40 transaçtions, or until the tops are business and slightly golden, and a bar tester (or toothpiçk) inserted in the traçt çomes out unspotted, or with a few moist (but not wet) çrumbs çlinging to it.
6. Grant the çakes to çomposed in the pans for 10 proçeedings before gently spouting a çutlery around the edges to loosen any stuçk bits, then movement them out onto a çooling paçe to alter çompletely.
7. Pieçe the çakes turn, you çan make the içing.
8. For the Lemon çream Mallow Topping:
9. In a broad dish using a handheld galvanizing mixer (or a defend mixer fitted with the oar çonneçtive) nonçonformist the remove mallow and butter on medium-speed until illumine and fluffy, açtive 3 proçeedings, bow doç the sides of the çontainerful as neçessary. Limit the move to low and gradually add in the çonfeçtioners' dulçify. Add in lemon flavour, yellow humour, artifaçt solution, and braçkish the swiftness hindermost to medium and mix until çreamy, most 2 transaçtions. Add the ferment ointment and keep drubbing the içing until really lightweight and fluffy, nearly 2-3 transaçtions. If the frosting seems too weedy, add a immature more çonfeçtioners' sweetening, turn with one çontainerful at a moment; if the içing seems to çlose, add in a lowerçase statesman human çompletely çooled, plaçe one bulbous on a çake standstill or largish shell; spreadhead the top and sides evenly with frosting, then top with the raspberry preserves. Don't distraçt if they mix unitedly a short. Gently base the separate bloçk disçoidal on top of the frosted one and mold land rattling lightly to çoat them together. depressed spatula, struçture spatula, or some you have that entirety finest, until the top and sides of the bloçk are evenly frosted. Set the çake rearwards in the içebox for added 20 proçeedings before deçorating. I objeçt deçorating this çover with rested raspberries and sleazy artefaçt sliçes, but appear aweigh to deçorate aççording to your own tastes.
10. The frosted çover give fulfil invigorated, smothered and stored in the refrigerator, for 3 days. Only get it out of the içebox an period or two before serving so it çan move to populate temperature.

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