To celebrate Christmas, I made a birthday cake for Jesus's birthday. I found this recipe on Bakerella. I tweaked the recipe to my own taste/liking. This cake turned out great and tasted so good!! I highly recommend this recipe.
yellow cake
1 cup (2 sticks) of butter (room temperature)
2 cups of sugar
4 eggs (room temperature)
3 cups of sifted self-rising flour (White Lily)
1 cup of whole milk (room temperature)
1 t pure vanilla extract (McCormicks)
1/2 t butter flavoring
1/2 t almond extract
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease and flour (3) 8 inch cake pans or cut out parchment paper to place in the bottom of the pans.
Using a mixer, cream butter until fluffy.
Add sugar and continue to cream for about 6-7 minutes.
Add eggs one at a time. Beat well after each egg is added.
Add milk and flour, beginning and ending with flour.
Add vanilla, almond and butter flavoring to mix; until just mixed.
Divide batter equally into three cake pans.
Hold each layer about 3 inches above your counter and carefully drop the pans flat onto counter several times to ensure release of any air bubbles. This will help you have a more level cake.
Bake for 25 – 30 minutes (depending on your oven) until done.
Cool in pans for 5 – 10 minutes.
Remove and immediately wrap each layer in plastic wrap to seal in moisture. Cool completely on wire racks.
Once cooled, you are ready to assemble your cake.
Cut off the top layers to make sure the cake is leveled.
buttercream frosting
1 cup (2 sticks) butter (room temperature)
1 t pure vanilla extract
1/4 t almond extract
1 1b. 10X powdered sugar
1-3 t half and half
Pinch of salt (this will cut out the sweetness)
Using a mixer, cream softened butter and vanilla until smooth.
Add sugar gradually, allowing butter and sugar to cream together before adding more.
If you want your frosting a little creamier, add a teaspoon of half and half at a time and beat on high until you get the right texture.
Then, just use icing colors to tint the frosting the color of your choice.
This is usually just enough for a 2-layer cake, so I would recommend doubling this for a three layers.
I also made mini blueberry muffins for Christmas morning!
