Kevin's Birthday Cake: Lemon Lemon Lemon

Whisk together the dry ingredients.

Blend the wet ingredients. Add milk and dry ingredients.

Pour into two buttered baking pans that have been dusted with flour and bake.

Prepare the lemon curd. Cover with wrap and refrigerate for one hour

Fold the curd into whipped cream and refrigerate until assembly.

Prepare the lemon butter cream. I added a bit of natural yellow (organic confectioner's sugar can be a little off white, giving the frosting a grayish tint).

Chop white chocolate into shards. Zest a lemon and combine with white sugar sprinkles. To make letters heat a bowl of water (no more than 122 degrees) and milk chocolate shards in a plastic bag or pastry bag. Make sure to squeeze out all of the lumps.

Pipe chocolate letters onto parchment or wax paper and sprinkle with sugar crystals. Refrigerate until assembly.

Cut the dome of of the two layers of cake. Place lemon curd filling on one layer, leaving a one inch border. Place the second layer over the first and coat with butter cream. Prepare whipped cream by whipping one cup of heavy cream with 2 tablespoons of confectioner's sugar and 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract. Place the whipped cream in a pastry bag with a large closed star tip and pipe large and small soft rosettes around the border.

Sprinkle white chocolate shards in the middle of the cake and place chocolate letters around the border.

I made an additional large "K" so Kevin's piece would be special.

Sprinkle the lemon zest/sugar mix over the cake for additional sparkle.

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