Make sure to try my Classic Lemon Chiffon Cake too!
Pink Lemonade Chiffon Cake Recipe
This cake is against everything my boys believe in.
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But I promise you will love this cake..I even have a trick for those non-lemon people like my boys, but we’ll get to that in a minute. The cake itself is a pink lemonade chiffon cake and omg you guys need to make this. It’s SO soft and squishy…the closest I have ever come to the texture of a boxed cake mix. And also, I frosted it pink ombré…which may be my new favorite way to frost cakes. So simple and pretty!
First get busy caking…
How to Make The Best Lemonade Cake
The method is easy for this, but you will need two bowls, because you’re gonna separate the eggs and whip the whites on their own.
You add pink lemonade right into the batter. Now, I’ve made this cake a few times…if you aren’t a huge lemon person you can still add the lemonade and it will be almost undetectable in the batter. But if you like the lemon…this is a lemonade cake after all…you will need to add some lemon zest into both the batter and the frosting.
When you have the cake batter almost done whip the whites with a little cream of tartar and fold them right into the batter.
Once they are baked and cooled you can level them if necessary. This cake doesn’t produce huge domes, so I only took off a tiny bit of the top to get them to stack flat.
How to Frost Your Chiffon Cake
Spread your buttercream frosting in between the layers, and then crumb coat the whole cake lightly. Next allow the frosting to set…or you could pop it in the fridge to set quickly. Then divide the remaining frosting into thirds. Frost one portion a darker pink, the next a shade or two lighter and the last portion leave white or very pale pink. With the darkest color spread that around the bottom of the cake using an offset spatula…
Using the next dark color, apply it the same way around the middle. As you spread the frosting it will naturally blend together. Finally use the palest color at the top at the cake.
So pretty, right? That’s when I decided to dress up my cake…
Love that cake tutu!
Then slice and enjoy! To achieve the frosting technique I got here I crumb coated the whole cake and then divided the frosting into thirds coloring one section slightly darker, the next a little lighter and didn’t add coloring to the last bit. I used an off-set spatula and started with the darker color on the bottom, adding the middle color next and finishing the top with the lightest color. I blended it all together with my large off-set spatula.
