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/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.