Vanilla Buttercream on a Six Layer Cake in Winter
You might remember the vanilla buttercream white cake on the front porch in late summer. The one I posted for Marlene’s birthday. (looks good in summer light- click here )
I made this cake by baking 1 cup of batter in 3- 8″ baking pans at a time. (350 degrees)
Did that twice to make six layers. Vanilla buttercream icing.
The insides of the cake will be revealed another time. I used the 1-2-3-4 cake recipe
1 cup unsalted butter, room temp
2 cups sugar
3 cups of cake flour (with 2 tsp baking powder and 1 tsp salt)
4 eggs
1 cup of milk + 1/2 cup warm water
I used the Cake Bible method of mixing all dry ingredients with the butter and then adding the vanilla, egg and milk mixture to the dry mixture. Apologies to Rose Levy Beranbaum as she describes it so well in her cookbook but I gave Laura that volume and so it is in Columbus now. Laura and I did Face Time and she showed me the cookbook in her hands but when she read the recipes in the back for the wedding cake proportions and the breakdown for a smaller cake, I just decided to go with my grandmother’s and mother’s old 1-2-3-4 recipe. I couldn’t refer to the other recipes as I mixed and baked. I will have to borrow that cookbook back and commit it to memory, too.
yum-yum
January 17, 2012 at 12:21 am
Wonderful!
January 17, 2012 at 12:45 am
Is the no limit to your talents?
Keep me a slice please!
January 17, 2012 at 4:00 am
Beautiful photo. Sorry I won’t be making that today.
January 17, 2012 at 6:09 am
I don’t know, when I got my knew oven I don’t remember making such yummy looking stuff.
January 17, 2012 at 7:29 am
I’ll be right over for a slice of that beautiful cake and a cup of tea!
January 17, 2012 at 8:06 am
Soup (yesterday) and 6 layer cake …. That’s plenty of dinner for me!!!
Always notice the polished silver!!!
January 17, 2012 at 8:07 am
Beautiful presentation as well.
January 17, 2012 at 8:21 am
Looks so yummy
January 17, 2012 at 8:33 am
Six tasty layers and you even put a decorative edge around the top and bottom! Our baking skills are in entirely different leagues. You’re in the Majors. I’m soo Little League my efforts are laughable — edible but still laughable.
January 17, 2012 at 8:58 am
This looks yummy! I really liked the cake holder.
January 17, 2012 at 9:46 am
I want a slice of that cake! Wow, I’ve never made one with six layers, or with the beautiful icing decoration…my attempts at that have been sorely lacking. Lovely shot!
January 17, 2012 at 10:34 am
Now that’s a cake. Looks delicious.
January 17, 2012 at 11:05 am
This is my favorite kind of cake – yum!
Beautiful, too!
January 17, 2012 at 3:22 pm
I like the crystal glass too …
January 18, 2012 at 7:40 am
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SIX layers? I have only ever done 4 layers (http://savorysundays.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/sweet-sunday/ – close up here: http://savorysundays.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/class4_03.jpg) – and that was almost too much for me. You’re fancy!
January 19, 2012 at 9:21 am
Now you are toying with us – when do we find out what the inside looks like? Beautiful cake – and cake stand, I might add!
January 23, 2012 at 11:00 am