Vanilla Christmas Layer Cake with Creamy Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
- 3 cup cake flour
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 2/3 cup unsalted butter, melted
- 1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2/3 cup milk, I used whole milk
- 4 large eggs
- 1 1/2 recipes for my Basic Creamy Buttercream Frosting, recipe attached in direction step #7
- Preheat the oven to 350.
- Spray 3 - 8 inche cake pans with bakers sprspray
- Whisk together in a bowl flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt
- In another bowl beat butter and sugar until creamy, add flour and milk and give a stir to moisten, then beat in eggs and vanilla, add flour mixture and stir to blend
- Remove 1/3 of the batter to a seperate bowl, this will be your white layer.
- To the remaining batter, add enough drops of red food color to get a vivid red.
- Pour red batter into 2 of the prepared pans and the white batter in the remaining third pan
- Bake about 12 to 15 minutes just until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool on racks in pans 10 minutes , then remove and cool completely before frosting
- MAKE FROSTING AND FILLING
- Make 1 1/2 recipes of my Basic Creamy Buttercream frosting in order to have enough to fill and frost the entire cake.
- Recipe attached below.
- Use 1 1/2 cup butter and 6 cups confectioner's sugar , adding more cream as needed, see tip in recipe for perfect light creamy frosting
- ASSEMBLE CAKE
- Place one cooled red layer of cake bottom side up on serving plate
- Frost with some of the vanilla buttercream frosting
- Add the white layer, bottom side up
- Frost with some frostung
- Top with the second red layer of cake, bottom up
- Frost entire cake with tthe frosting
- Garnish cake with sprinkles.
- Chill cake for 2 hours for easy slicing
cake flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, unsalted butter, sugar, vanilla, milk, eggs, buttercream frosting
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/458309-vanilla-christmas-layer-cake-with-creamy-vanilla-buttercream-frosting (may not work)