Birthday Cake Under Construction
A buttery and golden vanilla cake with fudge frosting. Sturdy cake suitable for many types of decorating. Cake recipe from RockRecipes.com and Fudge Frosting inspired by Betty Crocker.
Servings: 1 cake
Ingredients
Vanilla Cake
- 1½ cups cake or pastry flour
- 1¼ cups all purpose flour
- 2½ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs at room temperature
- 1 cup evaporated milk undiluted.
- 4 tsp vanilla extract
Fudge Frosting
- 2 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup butter 1 stick
- 3 oz unsweetened baking chocolate
- 2/3 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Bowl of ice and water
Instructions
Vanilla Cake
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Sift cake flour and measure, sift all-purpose flour and measure.
- Sift both flours together, with baking powder and salt. Gently whisk to aerate more.
- Beat butter and sugar together until light and fluffy
- Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
- Add vanilla extract.
- Gently fold dry ingredients into the butter and egg mixture in three equal portions, alternating with the evaporated milk. Begin and end with dry ingredients. (Dry-milk-dry-milk-dry)
- Pour batter into a well greased and floured 9x13 pan, or two 9 inch cake pans. Tap pans gently to release air bubbles.
- Bake approximately 30-40 minutes, or until toothpick comes out with just a few crumbs.
- Remove cake from oven and let rest for five minutes in pan, and then gently turn out of pan onto wire rack to cool.
Fudge Frosting
- In a medium sized pot, mix all ingredients together except vanilla.
- Heat frosting ingredients to a rolling boil, and stir occasionally.
- Boil for one minute without stirring.
- Place pot in bowl of ice and water.
- Beat frosting until smooth and spreadable. Add vanilla.
- Frost as desired.