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Why You’ll Love This Recipe

• Raspberry Lemon Cake is light, fluffy and incredibly moist!
• As written, this recipe is great for a small gathering, but can easily be doubled for a larger cake.
• It’s made with simple and wholesome ingredients.
• Has a lovely raspberry and lemon flavoring.
• Is topped with a plant-based frosting that is light and airy.
• Can easily be made gluten free with the use of gluten free flour.
• If you loved this recipe, be sure to check out my raspberry muffins!

Ingredients And Substitutions

These are the main ingredients and substitutions for Raspberry Lemon Cake. Scroll down to the recipe card for a full list of ingredients and instructions.

The base of this recipe is made with all purpose flour, which provides the best texture. Alternatively you can use a 1:1 gluten free flour or oat flour to make this recipe gluten free.

Baking soda and baking powder used together is going to create a really lovely texture.

Salt helps to balance out all the flavors.

You can use any type of milk that you’d like, for this recipe I used almond milk but oat milk, coconut milk or regular milk will work too.

Lemon juice adds that lovely lemon flavor while also helping to activate the baking soda.

I used regular grass-fed butter, but you can also use coconut oil to make this recipe dairy free.

Granulated sugar is best to keep this recipe that light, vanilla color. Otherwise, you can use monk fruit sweetener or coconut sugar.

Eggs will help bind all the ingredients together and provide a lovely fluffy texture.

Vanilla extract is great in any baked good.

You can use fresh or frozen raspberries.

How To Make

ONE: In an electric mixer, add in the softened butter and sugar. Combine until mixture is light and fluffy.

TWO: Next, add in the eggs, almond milk, vanilla extract and lemon juice.

THREE: Gently fold in the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt next. Fold in the raspberries last and mix until just combined. Add batter to a greased 9×9 baking dish and bake for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

FOUR: Let cool while you making the frosting which is plant cream, powdered sugar and vanilla extract.

FIVE: Add frosting to the cake and top with raspberries and mint.

Tips And Tricks

Although you don’t need an electric mixer to make this recipe, it’s strongly encouraged as it whips the butter and sugar together to make them light and airy.

Alternate Buttercream Frosting

If you don’t want to use the plant-cream you can make a buttercream frosting with these ingredients below. Combine in an electric mixer for best results.

• 1/2 cup butter
• 2.5 cups powdered sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 tbsp lemon juice
• 1/2 cup frozen raspberries (for color)

How To Serve And Store

Serve this Raspberry Lemon Cake once it has cooled completely and enjoy with the fluffy frosting. Finish it off with more raspberries and mint for a garnish.

Store leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge and enjoy up to 3-4 days. Cake can also be frozen, wrap tightly in plastic wrap and freeze. Let thaw out on the counter to bring to room temperature.

Taste And Texture

This Raspberry Lemon Cake is not overly sweet, it has a light lemon but a strong raspberry flavor. The frosting is light and subtly sweet.

The texture is light, fluffy and very moist.

Frequently Asked Questions

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