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BEST VANILLA CAKE RECIPE HOW TO
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BEST VANILLA CAKE RECIPE HOW TO

How to Adjust This Recipe for Other Sizes

1 cup of frosting for the roses (AmeriColor teal)įor more helpful tips on coloring buttercream, see my posts for How to Color Buttercream.

It’s helpful to use a toothpick to add small amounts to your bowls at a time. Just remember that you only need a TINY bit of this gel to color these small amounts of frosting. The best way to dye your frosting if you’re looking for different shades is to start with half a drop in one bowl and then get progressively darker. You can use either the Wilton Color Right Food Gels (affiliate link) or AmeriColor Gels (affiliate link). Here are some more helpful tutorials when working with buttercream: How to Use a Piping bag and How to decorate with piping tips. These can be purchased at stores like JoAnn Fabrics, Michael’s, a cake supply store, or online. If you use your piping bags with couplers (affiliate link), you can easily switch out the tips with the different frosting colors.

Open star tips: Size 18 (affiliate link), Size 21 (affiliate link) , can be used to create a variety of shapes and rosettes.

Start by piping your roses, and then fill in the open spaces with the stars and rosettes.

1M piping tip (affiliate link): If you’re not fully comfortable, try piping a few of them on some clean parchment paper, and then you can reuse the frosting.

I never thought I was very good at piping roses, but you guys, it’s SO SO easy! Here are some of the tools I used. This is a super approachable way to decorate a cake. Of course, I’ve had a lot of practice over the years, but when it comes to cakes, I so often tend to stick with my go-to large open star piping tip. I am not a cake decorator in the traditional sense. I love this cake because I pushed myself out of my comfort zone.

You won’t have to worry about running out of frosting! Besides the filling in between the layers, you’ll need extra frosting for decorating. Use heavy whipping cream: Heavy cream makes this frosting extra creamy but helps to whip additional air into the frosting.įor this cake, you’ll need quite a bit of frosting.This is key to making the best whipped, silky texture. Then, as you add the powdered sugar, spend a few extra minutes beating it at each stage. Properly beat the butter: Since the butter is cold, you’ll need to spend several minutes beating the butter before adding any powdered sugar.This allows you to control the consistency of the frosting and prevents the butter from getting too soft when decorating or coloring the frosting. It starts with cold butter: Yep, I said COLD butter- as in straight from the refrigerator.

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I am sharing a couple of my secrets below, but if you’d like to see the full tutorial on making this frosting, see my original buttercream post. This recipe uses my tried and true vanilla buttercream. My Secrets for the Best Vanilla Buttercream The bake even stripes should be very wet when applied to the outside edge of the pan.įor more tips on making layer cakes, be sure to check out my full tutorial on baking Layer Cakes. You’ll notice the outside edges of the cake are also a little darker without them. Without them, the edges of the cake bake quicker, and therefore doming in the middle. Line the pans: Lining the pans with parchment paper or a silicone baking mats (affiliate link) will ensure that the cakes don’t stick to the bottom of the pans, and it makes it much easier to remove them after baking.īake Even stripes: I love using bake even stripes (affiliate link) because it helps the layers to bake flatter. I prefer using Crisco vegetable spread as opposed to a cooking spray. Grease and flour your pans: Generously greasing and flouring the pans will help to prevent the cake from sticking. It can be dressed up for Valentine’s day or dye the cake layer for a 4th of July cake, Tint the frosting red or green for Christmas or coordinate it with the colors for a baby shower or birthday party. This cake is perfect for just about any vacation. It’s also very sturdy which makes it a great option for a layer cake.

The texture is denser more so than it is light and airy, but it’s super moist and fluffy. The oil also creates a more tender and fluffy crumb as well. This is one of the easiest cakes to make because it’s an oil-based cake recipe, so there’s no waiting around for the butter to soften or worrying about properly creaming the butter and sugar together. It can be paired with just about any flavor of frosting, but my favorite is my vanilla buttercream. This cake is dense but spongy and very stable for stacking the layers.

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