Buttercream Cake Recipe🎂🧁🍰

Buttercream Cake Recipe🎂🧁🍰

Ingredients:

• For the Cake:

• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 4 large eggs, room temperature
• 1 cup whole milk, room temperature
• 2 tsp vanilla extract

• For the Buttercream Frosting:

• 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 1/4 cup heavy cream
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• Blue food coloring

Instructions:

1.Preheat the Oven:

Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease and flour two 9-inch round cake pans.

2.Prepare the Cake Batter:

-In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt.

-In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.

-Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.

-Mix in the vanilla extract.

-Gradually add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, alternating with the milk, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Mix until just combined.

3.Bake the Cake:

-Divide the batter evenly between the prepared cake pans.

-Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

-Allow the cakes to cool in the pans for 10 minutes, then turn them out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

4.Prepare the Buttercream Frosting:

-In a large bowl, beat the butter until creamy.

-Gradually add the powdered sugar, one cup at a time, beating well after each addition.

-Add the heavy cream and vanilla extract, and beat until light and fluffy.

-Divide the frosting into two portions. Leave one portion white and color the other portion blue using food coloring.

5.Assemble and Decorate the Cake:

-Place one cake layer on a serving plate and spread a layer of white buttercream on top.

-Place the second cake layer on top and frost the entire cake with a thin layer of white buttercream (crumb coat). Chill the cake for 30 minutes.

-Apply a final layer of white buttercream to the top of the cake.

-Use a piping bag fitted with a star tip to pipe blue swirls around the sides of the cake.

-Pipe white swirls around the top edge of the cake.

-Create a blue rose with the remaining blue buttercream and place it on top of the cake.