Tender yellow cake layers with raspberry lime curd filling and orange buttercream.
I had a cake class a couple weeks ago, where we made my Classic Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting. It’s such a basic cake, but man oh man, is it good! I worked on my yellow cake recipe last year when I did a collaboration with Brooke Eliason from Female Foodie. It’s her favorite cake and I did my best to come up with a recipe that would meet her expectations… and I think I did. This yellow cake is tender, sweet and flavorful thanks to a good amount of egg yolks, sour cream, cake flour, and both clear vanilla extract and butter extract.

After each cake class, I bring home layers of the cake we made that night. I never let them go to waste and usually try to use them for a new cake. In this case, after doing a lot of chocolate cakes recently and still obsessing over the lemon curd from my last cake, I wanted to go with something fruity again. I then asked Westin if he wanted to help me come up with a new flavor. He jumped right in and quickly helped me decide on a raspberry lime curd for the filling. We also talked about a lime buttercream, but when we got started on the frosting, I realized I didn’t have any lime flavoring. Westin and I went through what I did have and chose orange emulsion to go in my basic vanilla buttercream.
You guys! Oh. My. Gosh. The combination is out of this world good. With one bite, I immediately thought of the rainbow sherbet I used to get as a kid at Baskin Robbins and it made me smile ear to ear. I’m beyond thrilled with how this cake turned out.

As for decorating this cake, I definitely had some fun with this one. After grabbing these cute cactus napkins at Orson Gygi, I also saw a Katherine Sabbath cake with buttercream cactuses on it and couldn’t resist creating my own version, inspired by the two. I have a video of this cake on Instagram and my last post about applying sprinkles to the side of your cake.


Hoping you love this cake as much as I do!
Enjoy!
Hi Courtney! I love your cakes & look at your perfection of an Instragram daily. I am currently looking for the perfect recipes to make a vanilla cake with lemon curd and vanilla buttercream layers this week. Would this yellow cake recipe work for that? Want to make sure I pick something nice and light/fluffy so it’s not too dense with the lemon. Thanks so much!!
I actually think my Lemon Poppyseed Cake without the poppyseeds or my white cake from my funfetti cake would be best with lemon curd and vanilla buttercream.
This cake looks delicious. I’m wanting to try the raspberry lemon curd. Can I use frozen raspberries instead of fresh? Thanks!
Yes you can