Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour 40 minutes
Total Time: 2 hours 10 minutes
Yield: 12-16 slices
Ingredients
The Cake
- 1 C. Crisco® All-Vegetable Shortening or Crisco® Butter Flavor All-Vegetable Shortening
- 2 C. granulated sugar
- ¼ C. light brown sugar
- ⅓ C. lemon zest (4 large lemons) OR 2 tsp. Spice Islands® Pure Lemon Extract (added with vanilla extract below)
- 5 eggs
- 1/2 C. buttermilk
- ½ C. lemon juice (from 2 large zested lemon) OR ½ C. milk (if using lemon extract)
- ½ tsp. vanilla extract
- 3 C. all-purpose flour
- 1 ¼ tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. Clabber Girl® Baking Powder
- ½ tsp. Clabber Girl® Baking Soda
- ½ C. raspberry jam (store bought or make your own by cooking down ½ pint raspberries, ½ C. sugar and a squeeze of lemon juice on medium low heat for 10-12 minutes)
- +fresh raspberries for garnish, if you please!
The Soak
- ¼ C. lemon juice (from 1 large zested lemon) OR ¼ C. sugar + ¼ C. warm water mixed together until dissolved (if using lemon extract)
The Glaze
- 2 C. powdered sugar
- 2 Tbsp. lemon juice (from 1 large zested lemon) OR 2 Tbsp. milk (if using lemon extract)