Vanilla Cake With Chocolate Buttercream
This cake turned out so great and the rich and fluffy chocolate buttercream is so good. This is such a classic birthday cake. Try this recipe from food network. Let’s get baking!
INGREDIENTS FOR CAKE:
- 1 stick (8 tablespoons) unsalted butter (room temperature)
- 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon fine salt
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 5 large eggs, at room temperature
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup milk
DIRECTIONS FOR THE CAKE:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease the bottoms and sides of two 8-inch round cake pans with my homemade cake pan release.
- Whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside.
- Beat the butter, sugar and oil in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, and then the vanilla until combined.
- Alternate folding the flour mixture and the milk into the batter with a spatula, adding the flour in three additions and the milk in two, starting and ending with the flour, until just smooth. Divide the batter evenly between the prepared pans.
- Bake the cake for about 35-40 min. or until toothpick comes out clean. Let cool in the pans about 10 minutes, then turn out onto cooling racks and let cool completely.
- Make this chocolate buttercream. level cakes and frost cake completely. Smooth with an offset spatula. Fill a piping bag fitted with a number 21 tip. Pipe a shell boarder on the top and bottom.
- Top with sprinkles if you want. Now take a little bit of vanilla frosting and dye it any color you want. I chose sky blue. Pipe happy birthday and the name. Enjoy!
Thanks for baking with me!
~ Natalie
