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When you need a quick, easy, and super yummy dessert, try this Angel Food Cake with Lemon Buttercream Frosting – a light and airy cake topped with a sweet, tart, and yummy Lemon Frosting. It’s a classic for a reason.

Closeup of an Angel Food Cake with Lemon Frosting on a cake plate on a white table with a slice taken out and on a dessert plate.

Our Lemon Buttercream Frosting is one of the most popular Two Sisters Frostings and we are always trying to come up with ideas for new frosting delivery systems … uhh, we mean desserts.  Angel Food Cake is a perfect pairing for our sweet, tart, and lemon-y buttercream frosting.  And sometimes, simple is just what the dessert doctor ordered, and this Angel Food Cake with Lemon Buttercream Frosting recipe couldn’t be easier to make but boy oh boy does it taste good.

Ingredients You Will Need

All the ingredients you will need to make Angel Food Cake with Lemon Frosting including an angel food cake pan, Angel Food Cake Mix, Lemon Frosting, lemons and sprinkles.

How to Make the Angel Food Cake

Closeup of an Angel Food Cake just out of the oven and still in the cake pan sitting on a white surface in front of a ramekin of sprinkles and a bowl of lemon frosting.

Step 1:  Make the Angel Food Cake.  We always keep a couple of boxes of Betty Crocker Angel Food Cake Mix in the Two Sisters cupboard.  A homemade Angel Food Cake requires 10 egg whites so we only pull out that recipe for REALLY special occasions.  You only need water for this box cake version and boy does it taste good! Make the Angel Food Cake batter according to the directions on the box. Pour the angel food cake batter into an ungreased Angel Food Cake pan. Bake in a 350-degree oven until the top is golden brown and the cracks that form are dry to the touch.  For us, it is usually around 40 minutes.  When you take the cake out of the oven, turn the pan upside onto a bottle or jar to cool.  Once fully cooled, take the cake out of the pan.

How to Make the Lemon Frosting

A glass bowl filled with Lemon Frosting sitting in front of a glass bowl filled with Lemons.

Step 2: Make a double batch of our light and creamy and delicious The Best Lemon Buttercream Frosting.  You can find detailed instructions and a video here.

How to Frost an Angel Food Cake

Collage images with all the steps to show you how to frost an Angel Food Cake with Lemon Frosting.

Step 3: Place the Angel Food Cake on a cake plate.
Step 4: Angel Food cakes have a lot of crumbs, so you’ll need to start with a light “crumb coat” layer of frosting.  Don’t worry about how it looks, just get this first layer of frosting on the cake.
Step 5:  Add a second, more generous, layer of lemon frosting.  
Step 6: Use a piece of parchment paper to press down on the frosting to smooth out the frosting and get rid of the lines from the knife.

Collage image showing how to add flourishes to a frosted angel food cake.

Step 7:  You can stop here or add a couple more flourishes to up the wow factor.
Step 8: Use a Wilton 2D Decorating Tip to create a ring of frosting flowers around the top edge of the cake.
Step 9: Don’t forget the sprinkles … everything tastes better with sprinkles.

Closeup on an Angel Food Cake with Lemon Frosting sitting on a white table with a piece taken out of it and lemons off to the side.

Step 10:  Use a serrated bread knife to cut the perfect slice of Angel Food Cake.

Closeup on an Angel Food Cake with Lemon Frosting sitting on a white cake plate on a white table with lemons in the background.

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Angel Food Cake with Lemon Frosting

Yield 12 servings
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Additional Time 20 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes

When you need a quick, easy, and super yummy dessert, try this Angel Food Cake with Lemon Buttercream Frosting - a light and airy cake topped with a sweet, tart, and yummy Lemon Frosting. It's a classic for a reason.

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Make the Angel Food Cake with a box cake mix. Follow the instructions on the box.
  2. Pour the angel food cake batter into an ungreased Angel Food Cake pan.
  3. Bake in a 350-degree oven until the top is golden brown and the cracks that form are dry to the touch.  For us, it is usually around 40 minutes.
  4. When you take the cake out of the oven, turn the pan upside onto a bottle or jar to cool.  Once fully cooled, take the cake out of the pan.
  5. Make a double batch of our light and creamy and delicious The Best Lemon Buttercream Frosting.  You can find detailed instructions and a video here.
  6. Place the Angel Food Cake on a cake plate.
  7. Angel Food cakes have a lot of crumbs, so you'll need to start with a light "crumb coat" layer of frosting.  Don't worry about how it looks, just get this first layer of frosting on the cake.
  8. Add a second, more generous, layer of lemon frosting.
  9. Use a piece of parchment paper to press down on the frosting to smooth out the frosting and get rid of the lines from the knife.
  10. You can stop here or add a couple more flourishes to up the wow factor.
  11. Use a Wilton 2D Decorating Tip to create a ring of frosting flowers around the top edge of the cake.
  12. Don't forget the sprinkles ... everything tastes better with sprinkles.

Did you Make this Recipe? Leave a review below, then snap a picture and tag @twosisterscrafting on Instagram so we can see it!

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Cuisine: American / Category: Cakes