Lemon Sunshine Mother's Day Cake Recipe

Lemon Sunshine Mother's Day Cake Recipe bettyskitchen Hi I’m Betty. Welcome to Betty’s Kitchen. Today I’m making a special lemon sunshine cake for Mother’s Day and I’m starting with just a standard cake mix and this could be any brand. This happens to be a classic white of the more supreme variety of Pillsbury and to make the cake it’s just a very simple follow the directions on the back. There will be a packet of picnics in there and you’ll be adding 1 cup of water for this mix. You’ll be adding 1/3 cup of oil. I’m using peanut oil. You can use corn oil, Wesson oil, canola oil. Any of those vegetable oils will be fine, pour that in and then when you either 3 whole eggs or 4 egg whites. Now I’m going to keep this of white color and you’ll see why later on because I’m going to change this color but I like this to come out as a white cake so I’m not putting the yolks in. You have to turn it into a more yellow color. So let’s put in our 4 or just put in more whites than you do whole eggs. It’s 3 whole eggs or 4 whites so I’m putting in 4 egg whites and then you can see I’ve got my mixture here so I’m just going to blend this up and then I’ll mix it for 2 minutes and I’ll be ready to put in my paired cake pans. I have two 9-1/2 inch cake pans and they should be prepared by greasing the bottom and putting a dusty flour and just shaking it right till it comes to the bottom. So that if those are ready and I’m going to go up and do my thing and when I come back I will have these ready. They bake in the oven at 350 for 27 to 31 minutes so I’ll just keep my eye on them and get them out when they’re done and I’ll cool them to room temperature before we proceed with our recipe. You can see that my two layers of white cake have come out of the oven and are perfectly done and their pretty even in terms of the size and that’s going to be important that they are fairly flat and I get ready to finish this up. The thing I have to do now is to perforate each one of these with a fork and I have already done this one. All you need to do is to go to your cooked layer of cake and use your fork and then just punch down. So you’re just going to make holes in the cake so it’s fairly quick and easy to do and then you’ll notice that what I have been doing while these had been cooling for 15 minutes now that’s all we have to cool them. I had mixed up some Jello and you’ll see if that 2 containers here and their both lemon. They’re lemon because I felt that would be nice and kind of bright and happy and sunshiny for Mother’s Day but typically you might want to use 2 different flavors. Maybe lemon for one layer we’re going to be pouring this in as you can see it’s going to soak in through those holes. You might do lemon for one layer and orange for another layer that would keep it nice and bright for Christmas time you might want to do raspberry for one layer and then lime so you have the red and green going so you could just adjust it to your own needs but since we’re doing Mother’s Day they’re both are going to be lemon and they have been prepared by boiling 1 cup of water and mixing with the lemon Jello can be sugar free or it can be sugar Jello but each of these is identical to the others so I just take one of them and pour it and just kind of try to give full coverage and it would fill that pretty much all the way up to the top but it’s going to sink in there and get back. Let me just put the other one I’ll take care of it and what I’m going to do is place these two well I think I will let them cool a bit more and when they are more like room temperature I’m going to chill them. I may need to chill at least 4 hours before we do anything more to them so I’ll back after they’re chilled. I’m ready to continue with our lemon sunshine Mother’s Day Cake and we’ve had these 2 layers sitting in the refrigerator for 4 hours. This should be set up and ready to ice so I have gone around the edge with a knife and I’m just going to shake this a little bit to get it out. You can fill it when it gets that release and jelly will come up nice like this. It’s not going to have a bunch of holes in it or anything like that once you get your cake out and we’ll have to do thinking on the other one but once you get your cake out you are going to have to just frost it when it’s cooled up. It’s a really light and airy cake and that’s the whole idea of this lemon sunshine. We want it to be something that’s fun and happy and going and good for Mother’s Day. Now you can use the cool whip just as it is. It makes a beautiful cake. This is mainly yellow and the white contrast would be good. If you would prefer you could take a few drops of yellow food coloring and then everything would be yellow so it would be yellow cake and yellow icing and that what I was planning to do but you know I really think maybe the contrast is going to look nicer particularly because I have some lemon here that I thought I would place on the top just for the core and that would be pretty on the white. I think prettier than on yellow. It’s just a matter of choice but it gives you some options that you can go with. So we’re going to have some with that and you would probably put the cup out right here and then just spread that sort of feeling it come lose and then I want to jerk it really hard to try to get it because it’s just taking its own time but there you go. Now the flat top goes on top so it’s flat top goes on bottom for your first layer flat top goes on top of your second layer and then let’s do the sides. I want to be really pretty old so there we go around the sides. Now the top and it does take a large container 6 ounce container. The top is really easy to do. I will just scoop out all this up. I should be working a little closer probably might have a dramatic effect here if I don’t but just get a bunch out and start spraying around and you know Cool Whip or any kind of topping. You can make all these lovely swirls to whatever you want to in terms of decorating the top. You’re going to refrigerate this and it’s just going to stay in the form that you put it in. I would put plastic wrap over it and I would put it with some toothpicks on top so that the plastic wrap doesn’t touch that Cool Whip but provides a tent for it so I think we’re good right here. So as far as decorating it let me show you what I might do. I got a piece of lemon slices and I might just start and place one and then kind of come around just spiraling as I go and they don’t have to be placing a particular way but if you can keep them fairly even then something like that is pretty. So this is what our lemon sunshine Mother’s Day cake looks like and I made this for all of you out there who are mothers or people out there who are thinking of your mother on Mother’s Day and just to show you what is like when you bite into you’re going to take a fork and go down and get some of this and make sure you get some of that whip topping as well as some of the cake with the Jello in it. It’s a great tasting cake and it’s just really pretty and your mother will love it.