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Ingredients
| cake flour: 2 1/2 cups |
| baking powder: 1 Tbl |
| salt: 1/2 tsp |
| unsalted butter: 1 cup (room temperature) |
| granulated sugar: 1 1/2 cups (sifted) |
| eggs: 4 (separated) |
| vanilla extract: 2 tsp |
| almond extract: 1 tsp |
| 2% milk: 1 cup |
| powdered sugar (unsifted): 6 cups |
| unsweetened cocoa powder (sifted): 3 Tbl |
| unsalted butter: 1 cup (room temperature) |
| salt: 1/2 tsp |
| 2% milk: 1/4 cup |
| vanilla extract: 1 tsp |
Something Special Birthday Cake
Credit: Food.com
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Prep Time
30 min -
Cook Time
30 min -
Servings
1 serving(s)
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- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Grease 2 straight sided 9x12 round cake pans and line with parchment or wax paper.
- Cake: Sift flour, measure carefully 2 1/2 cups and sift this again with the baking powder and salt onto waxed paper or another bowl.
- Beat the butter with electric mixer in a bowl until smooth.
- Gradually beat in 1 1/4 cups sugar until fluffy.
- Beat in yolks one at a time.
- Beat in vanilla, and almond extract.
- On low speed alternately add flour and milk in 3 additions.
- In yet another bowl beat the egg whites until soft peaks form.
- Gradually beat in remaining 1/4 cup sugar until stiff peaks form.
- Carefully fold the egg whites into the batter.
- Scrape the batter into prepared pans, spreading level.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
- The top should spring back when lightly touched.
- Cool pans 10 minutes, then unmold on cake racks to cool.
- icing: Sift sugar and cocoa into a large bowl.
- Add butter, salt and vanilla.
- Beat on high until fluffy, adding drops of milk until desired spreading consistency is reached.
- Frost as usual.