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| 2-Tier Lemon Raspberry Cake Recipe courtesy Sandra Lee Show: Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee Episode: Semi-Homemade Wedding Overall User Rating:  |
Not as special as she insinuated it to be
11/29/2006 at 09:26am
User: Delaine from Rogers, CA User Rating:
the directions were extremely confusing.
Results- a messy artificial tasting cake
11/28/2006 at 06:59am
User: Alice from Skowhegan, MN User Rating:
Was certainly not what I was hoping for. The filling was overly sweet and the cake was obviously made from a mix. The frosting did not smooth out pretty. It is completely the wrong consistencey for decorating.
Poorly written
11/17/2005 at 09:06pm
User: MICHELLE from Holly, MI User Rating:
For me after reading and re-reading, emailing food-network then still tweeking the recipe as best I could, it was very tasty. My problem after reading recipe was that it leaves out a lot. If it was not for me watching the episode again I would not have known how many cake mixes to use for the bottom layer. No where in the recipe does it say you need 6 cake mixes...but in the episode she clearly states you need that many. I made this cake for my grandmother's 90th birthday but I only did two tiers, like I said I had to modify it the best I could to fit my situation and since the recipe was hard to follow and was not clear to everything you needed. Though things finally turned out ok im giving this a poor rating, I think recipe needs to be reviewed again and maybe made by someone that is not a professional chef.
not so tasty
11/05/2006 at 10:35am
User: Maybeline from Amherst, CT User Rating:
very disappointing
Not worth the effort
11/04/2005 at 01:31pm
User: DENEEN from Tobaccoville, NC User Rating:
There's not much flavor in this one. Made it for some friends getting married as a wedding shower cake. Very dry, no one liked the flavors, no one finished their slice. Sorry, no hit here.
semihomemade wedding
10/27/2006 at 10:55pm
User: DEBBIE from ROCHESTER, NY User Rating:
before you go mixing 6 cake mixes, you better make sure your oven can accomodate the huge pan. the greatest attention to detail would be to hire a baker to make something special, as this was horrible, even for everyday home kitchens are not equipped to make a cake this big, that bottom layer is a bear to get fully cooked and even harder to get out of the pan, save yourself the aggrivation
I made this cake
08/17/2006 at 03:10pm
User: Sunni from Evergreen, OR User Rating:
It took forever to muddle through the directions. They didn't match what was on the show. To make a long story short, this turned out to be an expensive waste of food as it tasted horible and presented poorly also.
This was a terrible cake
08/07/2006 at 07:33am
User: Adrianna from McCrook, NE User Rating:
I thought the extra touches would make it special. It didn't do a thing to make it taste like it was from scratch.
moist
08/06/2006 at 09:31am
User: Anonymous User Rating:
taste moist & great, plus easy
This is NOT a yummy cake
07/31/2006 at 10:35pm
User: Rusty from Estill, SC User Rating:
the frosting is obviously from a can! And you can't fool anyone into thinking the cake is from scratch.
greatness!
07/27/2006 at 10:00pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
The frosting on this cake was absolutely yummy. Best ever IMO :)
a very unsatisfying recipe
07/24/2006 at 09:19pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
this recipe was HORRIBLE!! not only is everything from a box or a can, it is a very confusing recipe, and the outcome is not worth the effort. i highly suggest that for your wedding or special event, you choose a cake that was homemade, from scratch.
FAKE TASTING
07/24/2006 at 01:13pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
THE LEMON CAKE AND FROSTING TASTED FAKE AND NOT GOOD AT ALL.
tier lemon raspberry cake
07/23/2006 at 12:52pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
o.k
This turned out to be easily recognized as cake mix and canned frosting
07/19/2006 at 04:33pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
Not presentable for and elegant upscale party.
Definitely not a special occasion cake
07/18/2006 at 02:31pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
Tasted artifically flavored all the way. Texture was dry. Frosting also tasted very artificial. I don't think this is a very good "every day" cake and it certainly isn't a cake to present at any type of special occasion.
Not exquisite enough for a sacred ceremony
07/17/2006 at 11:02am
User: Vrginia from Lake City, FL User Rating:
too plain
really good
07/16/2006 at 01:01pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
fruity cake
Really tacky results
07/02/2006 at 01:18pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
not in good taste at all for a wedding.
Not the kind of thing I would want to see at a special event
06/22/2006 at 04:30pm
User: Judy from Hortonton, IN User Rating:
certainly not a wedding
Texture of Cornbread
06/22/2006 at 04:15pm
User: MOM from Whitesburg, OH User Rating:
dry and tasteless
this 2-tiered
06/21/2006 at 03:02pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
cake is yummo
great additions to the frosting
06/20/2006 at 09:58pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
this frosting was SO good. Loved her additions to it. Perfect cake !!
Sad
06/20/2006 at 02:18pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
I made this cake for my daughter's baby shower. The directions were very confusing. Were the amounts for two or three tiers? I had a difficult time putting the cake together and suggest that if you do three tiers you use dowls to support the second tier. The frosting was obviously canned-tasting. I was sad.
I made this for Granny's Birthday
06/20/2006 at 08:25am
User: Anonymous User Rating:
It was a disaster. Very ordinary.
ridiculously good
06/20/2006 at 12:47am
User: Anonymous User Rating:
cake. and so easy to do!
This cake is yummy
06/20/2006 at 12:23am
User: Anonymous User Rating:
that's what my three-year-old said! I scaled it down to make it an 8X8. We all enjoyed it.
supreme
06/19/2006 at 11:40pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
This semi-homemade cake reigns supreme. Not one person did not like it's yummy flavor!
very great
06/19/2006 at 11:07pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
cake...in size and taste!
cake
06/19/2006 at 10:51pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
was light and moist and the fruity flavor shone through. yummolicious!
flavors
06/19/2006 at 10:37pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
The lemon and raspberry flavors were good together in this cake. Very special!
WOW
06/19/2006 at 10:20pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
this cake was delicious and extremely impressive in appearance. Thks!!!
Beautiful and Wonderful Cake
06/19/2006 at 04:40pm
User: VALERIE from Okmulgee, OR User Rating:
I have made this cake a few times for an Anniversary, a Bridal Shower, and a birthday. It was wonderful each time and everyone that tasted it enjoyed it very much. I watch your show daily and try so many of your recipes.I have one of your cook books and hope to get them all before long. You have made my life so much easier. Thank you so very much. Sincerely your loyal fan' Valerie Allison Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Made one box/recipe for this cake to go with the Napa Valley salmon
06/18/2006 at 08:37am
User: Natalie from lakewood, NE User Rating:
We all voted no on the cake and frosting although we did like the lemon curd and raspberry jam. The cake has no real special quality and the frosting was certainly recognized as canned. No one was fooled to think it may be homemade. We won't repeat this recipe.
This was so not cool
06/13/2006 at 05:24pm
User: kathleen from waterbury, CT User Rating:
Don't serve subpar desserts to your guests. At least splurge for a real bakery cake.
This is does not represent the caliber of dessert
06/12/2006 at 06:02pm
User: Hillary from Hillside, CA User Rating:
I would consider serving at my wedding. Even on the TV it looked sloppy and poorly thought out. Special is not what I would call this cake. It is an ordinary, although large scaled, dessert that is not suitable for such a special occasion.
It tasted fine, but directions are not clear
06/10/2006 at 12:18pm
User: gail from nashotah, WI User Rating:
I made a small cake, just the top part of this wedding cake, and it tasted great. But the directions here are very unclear for anyone that would like to make the whole wedding cake. If you didn't watch the program, you wouldn't know how many mixes to use for each layer. But because the show only demonstrated the top layer which also was used as the table centerpiece, that my be why only those directions are given. I believe the bottom layer needs 6 boxes of cake mix, and the middle layer needs 4, the top layer 3 boxes. So I only rated this 3 stars, mainly because the directions are poorly written here, but the cake really does taste good.
wow
06/10/2006 at 11:58am
User: Angela from huntsville, AL User Rating:
I made this cake for my daughters wedding and it was wonderful a big hit with the guest. I almost ordered a cake for 200.00 Thank you Mrs. Lee and semihomade.....
Dry and Tasteless Cake
06/09/2006 at 04:39pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
Very challenging to put together. Definitely not good enough for a block party, much less a wedding or bridal shower.
This was served at a wedding I attended
06/09/2006 at 03:21pm
User: Jolie from Allentown, PA User Rating:
The mother of the bride bragged at how she used a semi homade recipe. Nobody liked the cake. More than half was left uncut. It was not good. It looked sloppy and poorly executed. I felt sorry for the bride.
Wonderful
06/05/2008 at 11:26am
User: Sandra from Sumter, SC User Rating:
I hadn't decorated a cake in over 20 years.I made this cake for my daughters wedding.It turned out great, the flavor was outstanding. It was enjoyed by all.I will defintly make it again.Even someone who has never decorated a cake before would do well with this cake.Guest commented that they had never seen or eated a better cake.
Icky Cake
05/31/2006 at 12:09pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
This cake tasted terrible.
It's wedding season
05/31/2006 at 08:24am
User: Margo from Farmington, MN User Rating:
Gosh I hope I don't find this at a reception this year. My sister made it for Mother's Day. It was a lousy cake.
Tasted cheap and artificial. Looked plain and slightly sloppy.
05/30/2006 at 03:38pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
This would be a really embarassing thing to serve at any nice occassion, let alone a wedding.
Poor quality dessert
05/24/2006 at 07:56am
User: Scottie from Portageville, MO User Rating:
for an elegant affair. I am so glad I tried this in a test run.
Worked out very well!
05/08/2007 at 07:02pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
I used this recently for my friend's wedding. I think people are stupid to think that this will taste like a bakery cake. Everyone commented on how much they enjoyed it.
a really bad idea for a wedding
04/30/2006 at 01:30pm
User: Lindsey from greenville, NC User Rating:
Really!
Poor texture and flavor
04/02/2006 at 02:26pm
User: afriend from tampa, FL User Rating:
certainly not of wedding quality.
terribly confusing directions
03/29/2006 at 07:10pm
User: Heather from seatle, WA User Rating:
terrible tasting results
Tasted acrid and artificial
03/28/2006 at 04:37pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
Quite unpleasant, actually
Did not taste very special
03/28/2006 at 08:07am
User: louise from m, IA User Rating:
even with the raspberry jam "filling" we just couldn't get past the essence of processed frosting from a can. And the directions were all wrong. Very hard to follow. Not for a wedding, that's for sure.
I couldn't make sense of the directions
03/27/2006 at 09:11pm
User: eve from kk, IL User Rating:
turned out pretty bad even with my winging it most of the way
It didn't turn out very pretty
03/16/2006 at 04:48pm
User: marvin from jdklfj;dasklf, IL User Rating:
and nobody really cared for it. I certainly would not serve it for wedding guests.
great
03/12/2007 at 06:25pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
i also scaled it down and it was very moist and had a wonderful taste.
We made this for our neighborhood card party
03/10/2006 at 08:32pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
And all 12 of us agreed that this was not a keeper.
not worth the effort
03/04/2006 at 05:08pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
this was not that good
Made this for my sister's shower.
03/02/2006 at 10:12am
User: susan from Houston, TX User Rating:
I decorated it with fresh flowers to try to make it look special. The canned frosting just doesn't finish off like a professional. I ended up serving it out of the kitchen with out letting anyone see it. I was trying to avoid embarrassing myself. But it was too late, because the cake itself was the monst humiliating part of the shindig. It was awful.
It is never classy to serve cake mix wedding cake
02/27/2006 at 09:48pm
User: forrest from Memphis, TN User Rating:
A wedding should be special and the ultimate in decadance. Not out of a can or a box.
It is a sad day when a bride chooses a cake mix cake
02/26/2006 at 08:05am
User: mary from atlanta, GA User Rating:
and canned frosting for her wedding. If you wanted to make your own cake at least make it from scratch. And if baking is not your forte', hire a caterer. Weddings are supposed to be special not semi.
Went over like a dream
02/20/2007 at 04:05pm
User: Mildred from Chesterfield, VA User Rating:
I made this recipe omitting the Lemon raspberry filling and using homemade icing and everyone loved it.
Poor instructions
01/29/2006 at 04:07pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
I still can't figure out how to make more than one tier. I tried it out on my family last night and nobody liked it so I guess it's not really a problem anymore! :)
Great Cake
01/29/2006 at 02:19pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
I made this cake for a bridal shower and everyone loved it. It was so moist and the combination of the tart lemon curd and the sweet jam complimented one another perfectly. Also, I covered the cake with fondant that I'd flavored with raspberry candy flavoring to tie the whole cake together.
Good cake
01/23/2006 at 01:26am
User: Anonymous User Rating:
It was very moist and tasted great.
Loved this cake
01/22/2006 at 08:22pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
The rasberry and lemon went great together. I am not sorry :)
I am sorry but the instructions are simply wrong
01/19/2006 at 06:50pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
Obviously.
Lovely cake
01/19/2006 at 06:39pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
Thanks! This cake is very much worth the effort for a special occasion. We served it at a baby shower and everyone was blown away by how big and pretty it was. It tastes good too!
Impressive cake
01/18/2006 at 07:24pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
This looked impressive in the middle of the appetizer table. It all got eaten too! This was a big cake!
Does this recipe make sense?
01/14/2006 at 01:33pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
How can 3 boxes of cake mix yeild 9 layers of cake (three each of 14, 10, and 6), and feed 30-40 people? This recipe is completely off.
This show makes things seem easy!
01/14/2006 at 03:33am
User: Anonymous User Rating:
Before watching this show, if I saw this cake, I would think this would be too hard to make for a novice cake maker. But it was as easy as it looked! Thanks!!!! Tasted good and it came out looking fantastic too!
Box Cake & Canned Frosting? YUK!
01/13/2006 at 06:49pm
User: DERICE from Oklahoma City, OK User Rating:
This is the worst. I haven't made, and won't make, this recipe for anyone -- particularly for a wedding or any special event. Why in the world would someone feed this drek to people they love? In addition, the directions outlined here are altogether lacking in clarity. And, although the recipe states that this is a "2-Tier Lemon Raspberry Cake", the cake actually made on the episode, and the cake shown in the photo, is a 3-tier cake. What's the deal? With so many gifted chefs, and so many great (and easy) recipes available, why is this show still on the air? I just don't get it. Anyone who feels the need to serve a box cake and canned frosting at a wedding needs more help than a food show can deliver.
Hey
01/13/2006 at 05:31pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
My local Publix grocery store can make a cake to serve 40 people at less of a cost than buying all the stuff you need to make this. And, it isn't from box cake mix. You are better off doing that, and decorating with fresh flowers or whatever you want for that "Semi-Homemade" presentation.
fantastic looking cake and it tasted awesome too!
01/12/2006 at 12:48am
User: Anonymous User Rating:
:)
very nice cake
01/07/2006 at 03:46am
User: Anonymous User Rating:
spectacular actually!
yummy
01/05/2006 at 02:44pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
I loved the taste the champagne extract gave this cake. This is very impressive looking too!
cake
01/05/2006 at 02:06pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
This was an absolutely beautiful and delicious cake.