Grown-Up Birthday Cake
Tips: Line your cake pans with parchment circles to make sure the layers turn out without a hitch. And if you run into any trouble with lumps in the frosting, just whisk like mad till it smooths out.
Yield: Ready in 45 minutes
Cuisine: AmericanMain Ingredient: Cake
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| yellow; cake: |
| 2 1/2 cupsAP flour |
| 1/2 teaspoonsalt |
| 1 tablespoonbaking soda |
| 2 cupsgranulated sugar |
| 4 Eggs |
| 1 teaspoonvanilla |
| 1 cupwhite wine or muscat |
| 1 cupolive oil |
| 7 ounces raspberry jam; preferably homemade, but I used Bonne Maman or apricot jam |
| bittersweet; chocolate buttercream icing: |
| 1/2 cupunsalted butter; softened |
| 1 cupconfectioners sugar |
| 1/2 cupDutch processed cocoa |
| 1/4 cupwhole milk |
| 1 teaspoonvanilla |
Grown-Up Birthday Cake Preparation
For cake:
1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Butter and lightly flour nine-inch cake pans. Line with parchment
3. Sift together flour, salt, and baking soda. Set aside.
4. In a standing mixer, blend sugar and eggs on med-high for a minute. Slowly mix in vanilla, wine, and oil.
5. Gently fold dry ingredients into cake batter until smooth.
6. Pour batter into prepared pans and bake for 25-30 minutes until cake tester comes out clean. Cool on wire racks.
7. Spread jam on one layer; then top with the other. Frost top layer with icing.
For icing:
1. Blend butter and sugar. Fold in cocoa and gradually add milk until it starts to look like icing. Mix in vanilla.
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