Lemon Cloud Cake with Lemon Filling and Lemon Buttercream

By: Shelly
Posted: Mar 25, 2026

This extremely fluffy Lemon Layer Cake is smooth, buttery, and stacked excessive with silky lemon curd and fluffy lemon buttercream like a lemon cloud! It’s the form of cake that feels fancy sufficient for a celebration, however easy sufficient to bake simply since you’re craving one thing candy and citrusy.

Serving a slice of lemon cake on a cake plate

Why You’ll Love This Lemon Cake

Layered with taste: You get lemon in each chunk from the cake, to the tart lemon curd AND the lemon buttercream frosting!
Comfortable, tender crumb: This can be a traditional smooth, moist butter cake with the fluffy cloud-like texture!
Good steadiness: Candy buttercream + tangy curd = magic
Make-ahead pleasant: This cake might be made a head and saved within the fridge!

Why Is It Known as Lemon Cloud Cake?

That is a type of recipes that got here from my mother’s recipe field. After all I made a couple of tweaks as a result of she used a boxed cake combine for the cake…which you completely may too! I simply am providing you with a from-scratch model! BUT the cake itself paired with the fluffy lemon buttercream frosting and the silky, tart lemon curd is sort of a smooth, fluffy lemon cloud!

Ingredients for lemon cake laid out flat with labels

Elements

This cake has very straight-forward elements. The one 2 stuff you would possibly must buy if in case you have have already got a well-stocked pantry is lemons and buttermilk! Be certain to scroll the recipe card on the backside of the web page for the total ingredient record with measurements and directions!

All-purpose flour. Be certain to make use of the spoon and sweep methodology when measuring your flour.
Lemons. You’ll be utilizing the lemon juice and the zest!
Baking powder. This can be certain that the cake has a pleasant ethereal texture.
Kosher Salt. I add a little bit of kosher salt despite the fact that I’m utilizing salted butter.
Butter. I exploit salted butter on this recipe however you should use usalted for those who want. You’ll be utilizing butter in each the cake and the frosting.
Granulated sugar.
Eggs. I exploit giant eggs all my baking recipes until in any other case said
Vanilla extract. Just a little vanilla simply creates a depth of taste paired with the lemon.
Buttermilk. Utilizing buttermilk on this cake is what retains the feel further smooth and moist.
Lemon Curd. You should utilize any retailer model lmon curd you favor, OR you can also make your individual at house utilizing my lemon curd recipe!
Powdered sugar. This will likely be utilized in making your buttercream
Milk. You’ll add a little bit of milk into the frosting alsong with lemon juice to assist make it creamy.

Ideas/Tips for Success

Use a boxed cake! If you happen to’re brief on time or simply want boxed cake combine, you possibly can completely use a Vanilla or butter cake combine instead of home made!
Use contemporary lemon juice! It actually makes a distinction in taste. Contemporary lemon juice is leaps and bounds higher than the type you discover within the bottle.
Don’t skip the zest! The zest within the cake and frosting actually amps up the lemon taste!
Chill the cake earlier than slicing for cleaner layers if you would like further good layers. That is professional tip for baking all muffins!
Degree your layers if wanted for a bakery-style end. In case your cake domes a bit it’s no drawback. Simply degree the cake utilizing a serrated knife so it sits evenly if you stack your layers!

Lemon Cake slice with lemon filling and lemon frosting on a white plate

How To Retailer This Lemon Cake

This cake will slide a spherical a bit as a result of lemon curd so I like to recommend maintaining it within the fridge till you’re nearly able to serve. Take it out about 20 minutes earlier than serving relying on the local weather!

Retailer lined within the fridge for as much as 3 days.
Let it sit at room temperature for about 20 minutes earlier than serving for finest texture

Description

This Lemon Cloud Cake has layers of silky lemon curd and creamy, fluffy lemon buttercream. The cake is a moist butter cake that has a touch of lemon zest!

Cake:

1/2 cup butter, room temperature
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
2 teaspoons lemon zest
3 giant eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon kosher salt
2 cups all objective flour
1 cup buttermilk
1 (12.7- ounce) jar lemon curd

Frosting

8 cups powdered sugar
1 cup butter, room temperature
1/4 cups contemporary lemon juice
1 teaspoon lemon zest
1/4 tablespoons milk

Cake: Preheat your oven to 350°F. Coat two 8-inch spherical cake pans with baking spray and line the bottoms with rounds of parchment paper. Coat once more with spray and put aside.
Within the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment combine the butter, granulated sugar, and lemon zest collectively on medium velocity for five minutes.
Add within the eggs, vanilla, baking powder, and salt and blend for 1 minute till easy, scraping the edges of the bowl as crucial.
Flip the mixer to low and add within the flour and the buttermilk in alternating parts, starting and ending with the flour. Combine till simply mixed. Don’t over-mix.
Divide the batter evenly between the pans and bake for 25–half-hour, or till a toothpick inserted within the middle comes out clear. Cool the muffins within the pans for 10 minutes, then prove onto wire racks to chill utterly.
Frosting: Within the clear bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment mix the powdered sugar, butter, and lemon juice mixing to till mixed. It will likely be thick. Slowly drizzle within the milk, till the specified consistency is reached. Flip the mixer as much as medium-high and beat till fluffy, 1 – 2 minutes.
Assemble: Utilizing a protracted serrated knife, slice every cake layer in half horizontally so you have got 4 layers. Unfold half of the lemon curd on two of the layers. Prime every with the remaining cake, creating two “sandwiches”.
Place one cake “sandwich” on a cake plate. Prime with a beneficiant quantity of frosting and unfold it out to the sides utilizing an off-set spatula. Prime with the remaining cake “sandwich” and frost the highest and slides of the cake with the remaining frosting. There will likely be loads of frosting (presumably further) however there is sufficient to be beneficiant and to even pipe swirls or roses.
Refrigerate cake to arrange and take away it about 20 minutes earlier than serving.