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Vanilla Princess Cake
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A delicious vanilla cake recipe themed after the movie Wicked, designed in the style of princess dresses for the characters Elphaba and Glinda. This recipe includes instructions for making two cakes, one in green and one in pink, with detailed decoration steps to bring the characters to life.
01:10:00 total
Serves 2
medium
Decadent Dessert
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Ingredients
- unsalted butter - 3 sticks (12 ounces) (room temperature)
- sugar - 3 cups
- eggs - 6
- vanilla extract - 2 tablespoons
- almond extract - 1/2 teaspoon
- flour - 4 cups + 2 tablespoons
- baking powder - 4 1/2 teaspoons
- salt - 1 1/2 teaspoons
- milk - 1 1/2 cups (room temperature)
- green gel food color - watch the video to see (for one cake)
- pink gel food color - watch the video to see (for one cake)
Instructions
- Mix Dry Ingredients: Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a large mixing bowl. Set aside.
- Cream Butter and Sugar: Cream together butter and sugar in an electric stand mixer with a paddle attachment for 5 to 8 minutes until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and almond extracts.
- Combine Ingredients: Add eggs to the creamed butter mixture, partially mix. Alternately add dry ingredients and milk to the butter mixture, starting and ending with dry ingredients.
- Prepare Cake Pans: Grease and line princess cake pans. Fill two smaller pans halfway and a larger pan about 75% full with batter.
- Bake: Preheat oven to 325°F. Bake smaller cakes for 30 minutes and the larger cake for 40 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool and Assemble: Let cakes cool completely before stacking with buttercream between each layer.
- Decorate: Use green and pink American buttercream and fondant to decorate each cake according to the characters' dresses. Use edible sparkles, black gel food color, and silver luster dust for details.
