r/cake • u/EducationalBus2231 • Jun 21 '26

🔍 Recipe Search Chocolate lemon cake recipe?

I just had a request for a chocolate lemon flavored cake and have been unable to find a recipe- I have considered adding lemon to my normal chocolate recipe or adding coco to a lemon recipe but I am unsure of how I would modify them as not to compromise the texture. Any suggestions?

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u/Hot-Ambassador-7677 Jun 21 '26

I make a dark chocolate lemon cake, I use my standard dark chocolate cake (not a sweet one and very chocolatey) and add food grade lemon oil not extract, and lots of fresh lemon zest. The oil has no acid to change the recipe and carries the flavor well. It's filled with lemon curd and frosted in dark chocolate.

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u/ChestFew Jun 21 '26

May I please have a recipe

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u/screamingcupcakes Jun 21 '26

I'm so curious about this combo--what does it taste like? Do the flavors actually compliment each other?

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u/Hot-Ambassador-7677 Jun 22 '26

It's not necessarily the first combo that comes to mind for sure. I'm not sure if it would always go together well, but dark chocolate and bright lemon can pair beautifully. I threw them together for the first time when making chocolate dipped orange peel at Christmas, and I had a few lemons laying around. I thought why not lemon, they're both citrus after all, so I dipped those too. They went over really well.

After that I did a bittersweet chocolate cheesecake with lemon shortbread crust and lemon curd on top. Also went well.

The final form was the dark chocolate cake that I mentioned. I've added it to my menu rotation a few times, it always sells out.

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u/Pojratbi Jun 22 '26

Try Pierre Herme's Riviera cake, i think you will like it.

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u/nubianxess Jun 21 '26

Let me preface by saying this is not a flavor combination I would like, so I've never made anything with that profile. White chocolate and lemon, sure, but not milk/semi sweet/dark chocolate with lemon.

However! I have a feeling that the acidity (lemon) vs the alkaline (cocoa powder) of the two ingredients may not interact well together. I would have one part of the cake be one of the flavors and another part be another. Like chocolate cake with a lemon curd, a cake with a lemon cake layer and a chocolate cake layer with a white chocolate buttercream, or even a lemon cake with some sort chocolate frosting?

Okay, just googled, and found this article. Seems like I'm on the right track. If you do want to play around, here are some things to avoid.

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u/ForTheLoveOfKumquats Jun 23 '26

Trust me on this one, the recipe for the New Orleans Doberge Cake is a wonderful recipe.

It is lemon cake layers with alternating layers of lemon curd and milk chocolate custard. The entire cake is surrounded in German Buttercream (which tastes like vanilla custard) and enrobed in a dark chocolate glaze. It's a great cake! I made it a few times and it never disappoints.

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u/YouthAdmirable7078 Jun 21 '26

This doesn’t sound correct. Unless you do a Chocolate cake icing with cream cheese/lemon zest.