Lemon Cake — Three Layers, Two Sizes Tart. Not sweet-with-a-hint-of-lemon.
This is the thing most lemon cakes get wrong. They taste like a vanilla cake wearing lemon, and after two bites you've had enough.
Ours is genuinely tart — lemon all the way through the batter — and the cream cheese buttercream is what balances it. Bright, sharp an