Vanilla Christmas Layer Cake with Creamy Vanilla Buttercream Frosting.
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Ingredients of Vanilla Christmas Layer Cake with Creamy Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
- It’s of CAKE.
- You need 3 cup of cake flour.
- It’s 1 tbsp of baking powder.
- Prepare 1/4 tsp of baking soda.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
- It’s 1 2/3 cup of unsalted butter, melted.
- It’s 1 1/2 cup of granulated sugar.
- You need 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
- Prepare 2/3 cup of milk, I used whole milk.
- Prepare 4 of large eggs.
- It’s of red food coloring.
- It’s of FROSTING AND FILLING.
- It’s 1 1/2 of recipes for my Basic Creamy Buttercream Frosting, recipe attached in direction step #7.
- Prepare of GARNISH.
- It’s of red, green and white sprinkles.
Vanilla Christmas Layer Cake with Creamy Vanilla Buttercream Frosting step by step
- 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 https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/367337-basic-creamy-vanilla-buttercream-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.