ULTIMATE Summer Lemonade Cake! | How To Cake It with Yolanda Gampp

unsalted butter

🥗Healthier: coconut oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Coconut oil adds moisture with fewer saturated fats.

cream cheese

🥗Healthier: Greek yogurt

💰Cheaper: ricotta cheese

Greek yogurt provides creaminess with lower calories.

granulated sugar

🥗Healthier: honey

💰Cheaper: brown sugar

Honey adds natural sweetness and moisture.

milk

🥗Healthier: almond milk

💰Cheaper: water

Almond milk is lower in calories and can be used in baking.

Make lemon shortbread bars ahead of time and let them set.

Mix together butter, flour, icing sugar, and a pinch of salt either by hand, mixer, or food processor.

Press the mixture into the bottom of a rectangular pan.

Bake the crust on its own until set.

Prepare the lemon filling with freshly squeezed lemon juice, lemon zest, sugar, eggs, and a bit of flour.

Pour the filling over the baked crust and bake again until set.

Let the lemon bars cool completely and chill in the fridge.

Bake two rectangular pans of vanilla cake, dye one pink with gel coloring.

Level each cake and remove caramelization from the bottom and sides.

Cut each cake into strips lengthwise, with one strip twice as wide as the other.

Soak the cake layers with lemon simple syrup.

Remove lemon shortbread bars from the pan carefully and trim to fit inside the cake.

Flavor Italian meringue buttercream with lemon curd and yellow gel coloring.

Layer the cake with alternating pink and vanilla layers, including a layer of lemon shortbread bars.

Chill the layered cake in the fridge before crumb coating.

Trim the sides of the cake if necessary to ensure it's level.

Apply a crumb coat with lemon buttercream and chill again.

Ice the cake with plain Italian meringue buttercream using a bench scraper for smooth sides.

Roll out fondant slabs to cover the cake, measuring the height and width first.

Cover the shorter sides of the cake with white fondant, trimming excess as needed.

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