Do not preheat oven.

Make sure all ingredients are room temperature. Add together baking soda and flour; sift a couple times.

With a mixer, cream together butter and cream cheese. After it has been mixed well, mix in Brown Sugar. Mix until light and fluffy.

Add egg to mixture and mix completely before adding the next ingredient.

Gradually add around a half cup of flour to mixture and mix well.

Alternate adding egg and flour but mixing well after each addition and be sure to start and end with egg.

Add vanilla and lemon.

Grease bundt pan or cake pan of your choice with shortening. Pour cake mix into prepared pans and put into a cold oven.

Bake at 325 for about an hour and fifteen minutes. Be sure to check close to an hour in since ovens vary.

Once toothpick is inserted and comes out clean... cake is done. Let cool for 10 min and remove from pan.