White Cake with buttercream frosting. You could make this creamy white cake with buttercream frosting with any type of filling. Blueberry, cranberry, cherry, strawberry, and mango would also be good to use depending on the season. New Orleans native Charlie Andrews demonstrates on how to make his delicious White almond cake with butter cream frosting from scratch.
Ingredients of White Cake with buttercream frosting
- You need 2 cup of all-purpose flour.
- Prepare 2 tsp of baking powder.
- It's 1/2 tsp of salt.
- You need 1/2 cup of shortening.
- You need 2 of eggs.
- You need 1 1/2 cup of sugar.
- You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
- Prepare 1 1/4 cup of milk.
A real buttercream frosting takes little time to make, can be tinted with food coloring (use paste or gel, not liquid food color), and will hold up to one week if tightly covered and refrigerated. Use a real vanilla; imitations are not recommended. If you can find a vanilla bean paste it's well worth the investment. The one kind of cake that I sometimes will eat is wedding cake.
White Cake with buttercream frosting step by step
- Preheat oven to 350°F Fahrenheit..
- Mix.
- Then mix in another bowl.
- Then add dry ingredients to other mixture..
- Pour into a well greased 9x12 pan. Bake for 40 minutes..
A really good and moist white cake with hint of almond extract. So that's what I went for here. Many have claimed that it is the best buttercream they have ever tasted. And it was for me too! Though, I still can't say I am a frosting fan.