Woody's Luxury Lemon Cake

This was a new recipe from Rose's Heavenly Cakes cookbook. It consists of a white chocolate cake with lemon zest, lemon curd, and white chocolate buttercream with part of the lemon curd. The recipe indicated that I should reserve some of the lemon curd to put on the top of the cake in swirls. I decided I would skip that step and double the lemon curd that is between the layers of the cake.

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a chocolate fan. That being said, this cake is DELICIOUS!

It was very time consuming. I started it at 9:30 a.m. and finished it around 3:30 p.m. There were several "let cool for x minutes/hours" in that time period, but I didn't extend any of them.

Other people who have made this indicated that the cake recipe is similar to another one of Rose Levy Beranbaum's, so I will be searching for that one. I also need to find a similar white chocolate buttercream. This one was made very differently than other buttercreams, the white chocolate and some of the butter were melted together and then the egg yolks added to that mixture, cooking them. After cooling, this base and more butter were beaten together and finally the lemon curd added. The part that's throwing me is what to use to replace the lemon curd.