Its all about the cake stand.
My MIL often listens to my random rants about things that I am obsessed with. I wouldn’t blame her if she just tuned me out most of the time.
Luckily for me though, she listened extra good the day I went off on some random tirade about how I needed to own every cake stand ever made.
She found me this little gem at a garage sale.
I sorta like it.
A lot.
And I knew I wanted to make a cake just for it.
So I laid in bed at night and tried to figure out a way to make giant flower petals to mimic the cake stand.
Cause people do that right? Lay in bed and think about cakes. That’s not abnormal right? Right?
And then I decided I wanted to make up my own white cake recipe.
Now whatever gave me the indication that I could just create my own recipe from scratch, I don’t know.
I did create a recipe. Its just tastes NOTHING like white cake. It does however taste exactly like sugar cookies.
But I happen to enjoy sugar cookies.
And then I found the perfect icing tip to make the flower petals for my cake.
It was a good day in my kitchen.
Sugar Cookie Cake
Ingredients
- 3 cups cake flour
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup milk I used skim
- 4 eggs
- 3/4 cup butter
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 cups super fine sugar
- 1/2 cup melted white chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare two 8in. pans.
- In a medium bowl sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In a mixer, cream together sugar and butter. (I used chilled butter but room temperature would work as well) Add in extracts and eggs, one at a time. Add flour mixture to butter mixture alternating with milk. (a third of your flour, half of your milk, and repeat until both are gone)
- While that is mixing place white chocolate chips in microwave and heat for one minute. Remove from microwave and stir, then return and heat in 30 second increments until melted.
- Add melted white chocolate chips to batter and immediately pour into prepared cake pans.
- Bake for 25-35 minutes depending on your stove. Start checking at 25 minutes.
- Let cool.
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New Favorite Buttercream Icing
Ingredients
- 4 cups powder sugar
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 5 tablespoons milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in mixer on lowest setting for 30 seconds. Switch to medium high and mix for 2-5 minutes
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Yes its got shortening in it. No I would not substitute butter.
Just try it. Once. Then you can go back to butter. Trust me, I always go back to butter. And no, I am not just talking about frosting anymore.
I had SO much fun making this cake I am going to make it again just so I can show you how. That should be coming soon!
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Very pretty! I can’t wait to see your tutorial on the giant daisy petals. What tip did you use?
I’m baking this cake right now, Amanda, and I cannot wait to try it. And the buttercream icing? I’ve got it whipped up and waiting on the cake, and it IS delicious!!!
Made this last night!! But I made cupcakes instead of one big cake. Only one problem– the centers of my cupcakes deflated!! They looked great in the oven, and when they started to cool they started deflating! It took forever for the insides of the cupcakes to cool, so the outsides are really brown. Tastes great though. I’m hoping the icing covers up the sagginess? Any ideas on why this happened? I’m at a loss!!
I am at a loss why this recipe would still be listed … it’s not the bakers it’s the recipe~the same thing happened to me! I am VERY disappointed such a waste of time and money to say nothing about having to start all over with little time to make my grandson’s birthday cake! And the buttercream frosting takes like you are eating grease, you are….it may work well for decorating but take awful!
Samantha… this is completely my fault! I am so sorry. I had the wrong measurement on the baking powder… it should have read 2 tsp NOT 2 tbsp. That is was the centers deflated… my apologies!!
Thanks Amanda! I’ll try it again with 2 TSP of baking powder, haha!! I’ll just serve the “saggy” ones to my co-workers… they’ll eat anything!
A cake that tastes like a cookie sounds like a fun mashup of two delicious desserts. Way to go with developing your own cake recipe!
No it’s not just about the cake stand, that cake looks absolutely stunning and delicious. Bravo!
Can I tell you just how comforting it is to find someone else that lies in bed at night, pondering cake? 🙂
The cake is beautiful!! And I am going to have to try this recipe…love me some thin mints!
I tried to make this recipe work for cupcakes…they all fell in the middle. But they still tasted good!