Lemon-Cheese Layer Cake

Little layer cakes are becoming a lost art in the South. My lemon-cheese layer cake (one of the famed little layer cakes and properly pronounced with no pause between “lemon” and “cheese”) is not like a cheesecake, as the name might suggest. The perfect balance of lemon curd filling and cake is what gives it that creamy consistency. My updated version is frosted with buttercream (unlike traditional recipes iced with lemon curd), which balances th