Vanilla Christmas Layer Cake with Creamy Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

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This classic vanilla cake is decorated for Christmas with colorful red and white layers and decorated with red and green sprinkles. Merry Christmas!

Vanilla Christmas Layer Cake with Creamy Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

This classic vanilla cake is decorated for Christmas with colorful red and white layers and decorated with red and green sprinkles. Merry Christmas!

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Ingredients

40 mins
15 servings
  1. CAKE
  2. 3 cupcake flour
  3. 1 tbspbaking powder
  4. 1/4 tspbaking soda
  5. 1/2 tspsalt
  6. 1 2/3 cupunsalted butter, melted
  7. 1 1/2 cupgranulated sugar
  8. 2 tspvanilla extract
  9. 2/3 cupmilk, I used whole milk
  10. 4large eggs
  11. red food coloring
  12. FROSTING AND FILLING
  13. 1 1/2recipes for my Basic Creamy Buttercream Frosting, recipe attached in direction step #7
  14. GARNISH
  15. red, green and white sprinkles

Cooking Instructions

40 mins
  1. 1

    Preheat the oven to 350. Spray 3 - 8 inche cake pans with bakers sprspray

  2. 2

    Whisk together in a bowl flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt

  3. 3

    In another bowl beat butter and sugar until creamy, add flour and milk and give a stir to moisten, then beat in eggs and vanilla, add flour mixture and stir to blend

  4. 4

    Remove 1/3 of the batter to a seperate bowl, this will be your white layer. To the remaining batter, add enough drops of red food color to get a vivid red. Pour red batter into 2 of the prepared pans and the white batter in the remaining third pan

  5. 5

    Bake about 12 to 15 minutes just until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool on racks in pans 10 minutes , then remove and cool completely before frosting

  6. 6

    MAKE FROSTING AND FILLING

  7. 7

    Make 1 1/2 recipes of my Basic Creamy Buttercream frosting in order to have enough to fill and frost the entire cake. Recipe attached below. Use 1 1/2 cup butter and 6 cups confectioner's sugar, adding more cream as needed, see tip in recipe for perfect light creamy frosting

    https://cookpad.wasmer.app/us/recipes/367337-basic-creamy-vanilla-buttercream-frosting

  8. 8

    ASSEMBLE CAKE

  9. 9

    Place one cooled red layer of cake bottom side up on serving plate

  10. 10

    Frost with some of the vanilla buttercream frosting

  11. 11

    Add the white layer, bottom side up

  12. 12

    Frost with some frostung

  13. 13

    Top with the second red layer of cake, bottom up

  14. 14

    Frost entire cake with tthe frosting

  15. 15

    Garnish cake with sprinkles. Chill cake for 2 hours for easy slicing

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“Fenway” passed away on 2/3/2021. For the last year she tried to teach her husband of 42 years how to cook like her. Although I will never be as good of a cook as her she did pass on her passion for cooking. Therefore, I will attempt to carry on her legacy and maintain/update her site. My wife was a Registered Nurse, a licensed deep water aerobics instructor, a mother to our 2 children and a fantastic cook. We grew up in New England but have been fortunate to live all over the US. I am now retired, missing her terribly, but thankful for all the years we had together and all her cooking lessons.
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