pink lemonade cake that doesn't begin with a boxed mix?

[DGresh]

So my sister-in-law mentioned a wonderful pink lemonade cake with raspberry frosting that she got from a bakery for a party. Now I'm obsessed with making such a thing for a dinner party I'm having this weekend. All the recipes that I've found on the web begin with "start with a box of white cake mix". Now I suppose I could figure out what the home made equivalent of 'white cake mix" is, but I'd really rather start with a real recipe for such a thing. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

[Norm Man]

Recipe for Lemonade Layer Cake (the frosting also includes lemonade but you can easily change it to Raspberry):

http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/rec...

[folprivate]

I highly recommend this recipe. I have made it for several years to rave reviews. Moist cake and lemony cream cheese icing.

[DGresh]

Great! I'd already decided to give this one a whirl. Thanks-

[DGresh]

I made this recipe-- Fantastic! thanks-- I made it exactly as written (skipping the idea of raspberry this time around). The frosting is more of a cross between a glaze and a regular frosting. We all really enjoyed it.

[Norm Man]

DGesh, thanks for reporting back and so glad it worked out great.

I saved the recipe from an earlier thread about Lemon Cakes but I haven't made it yet. I wonder what would happen if you increased the amount of Frozen Lemonade Concentrate (Cake recipe calls for 3 Tablespoon of Concentrate)? More added moisture produce a more dense cake?

DGesh, do you plan on making the Pink Lemonade Cupcake Recipe? PLease report back if you do.

The Pink Lemonade Cupcake Recipe listed above calls for 1/3 cup Lemonade Concentrate to 1 cup flour while the Lemonade Cake Recipe cals for 3 Tablespoons Lemonade Concentrate to 2 Cups Flour.

[DGresh]

It was plenty lemony as is (though I imagine I probably added more lemond rind than called for; I use a microplane which is fluffy and I always increase by a factor of 2 or 3)-- I don't really plan to do the cupcake recipe, after reading some of the comments which were not too favorable.

One thing is that I used pink lemonade concentrate rather than regular (as it was all my grocery store had at the time). I was concerned about a pinkish but not really pink color (as the cupcake recipe calls for food coloring in addition), but neither the cake nor the frosting showed any effect.

[milklady]

What about making this delicious meyer lemon cake? http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/m...

With some pink food coloring it'd be a delicious pink lemonade cake.
I'd then make the raspberry buttercream from the Cake Bible and it'd be amazing. Now I want to try this...

[andieb]

This recipe is for cupcakes, but maybe you could adjust it?

http://castsugar.blogspot.com/2007/10...

[DGresh]

hey thanks!