Golden Vanilla Cake with Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

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This is a cake for special occasions. The gold color gives it elegance, and the flowers that lovely feeling of spring. I can see this being served at celebratory events.
Prep time: 45 mins – Cook time: 30 mins – Chilling time: 2-3 hours – Assembly time: 60 mins

See recipe for vanilla buttercream frosting HERE.

How to…..

Preheat oven to 350 F/176 C.

Cake

Mix the flour, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. Beat the butter and sugar with an electric whisk until slightly fluffy and well mixed. Add the egg and vanilla to the butter mix and keep beating with the electric whisk until just combined. Then add the flour mixture and milk alternating between the two and ending with the flour. Don’t over mix – just until well combined. Pour into the pan and bake for 30-40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out dry. Let the cakes cool completely on a wire rack.

Now make the Frosting

Assembly

Place one cake on the turntable or serving plate. Put ½ cup of frosting on top of the cake and smooth it out with the offset spatula (or knife if you don’t have a spatula). Place the next cake on top of it, top side down (so you get a nice flat topside of the cake). Now do the cookie crumb frosting. Starting with the sides, take the frosting with your offset knife and spread over the sides. Frost the top of the cake next. This is the cookie crumb layer and it will be thin and won’t look pretty (so don’t use much frosting) – you just want to hold the crumbs in. Put it in the fridge to cool for about an hour. Remove from the fridge and frost the cake. Repeat by starting with the sides and then move to the top. Put it back in the fridge to chill for 1-2 hours.

Prepare the golden colour by mixing about ½ teaspoon of gold luster with a few drops of lemon juice. You want to get a somewhat watery consistency. You can paint the sides of the cake first, and then move to the top. Try to paint it quickly and don’t re-paint the same area more than once because it won’t have a smooth finish. Let the paint dry up before you sprinkle some edible flowers on top or anything decorative you would like.

See the video on how to frost a cake HERE. See the video on how to paint a cake HERE.