Snowflake Cake
Candy melt snowflakes make this peppermint-kissed cake a showstopper.
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Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and paper three 6-inch cake pans. I use cake strips on my pans for more even baking. Sift and mix dry ingredients in a large bowl. Beat the wet ingredients together in a medium bowl. Add wet to dry ingredients and mix until combined Divide the mixture evenly into the cake pans. Bake for about 30 minutes until the centers are springy to the touch. Let cool completely.
Whip the butter for about 5 minutes using a paddle attachment (stand-up mixer). Beat in the confectioner’s sugar slowly Add the cream and vanilla. Beat until you have an even, fluffy consistency. Transfer a white batch to a piping bag. Add red food coloring to another batch and transfer to a piping bag. Snip off the tips of both and add to a larger piping bag. Pipe a spiral between each layer. Pipe and smooth a crumb coat with excess.
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Notes
If you’re not using 6-inch pans, double the recipe for 8-inch pans or triple the recipe for 9-inch pans.
If you see little clumps of butter after you mix the wet ingredients don’t panic, it all works out by the time you mix in the dry ingredients. You can even use melted butter and warm the milk and sour cream up a bit if you like.
You can substitute whole milk yogurt for the sour cream if desired, I do it all the time and can’t really tell the difference.
To get FLAT layers that are moist inside and out try using cake strips! You can buy a set online or make your own from foil and paper towels at home. I made a whole blog post on it so check it out if you’re interested!
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I'm making this right now and I'm using 3 6in pans and I followed the measurements and it definitely doesn't look like enough. What am I doing wrong? The butter is also super lumpy. Oh man :(
What a beautiful cake ... love it! You’re very creative and make everything look so easy and do-able. Could you please let us know which Wilton blue colours you used for the icing. Thanks ❄️??
I love this cake, will make it for the birthday of my little niece in Frozen theme. I will tagg you at Instagram. :)
greetings, Caroline
Hello! Looking forward to making this cake. I've been making decorative cookies for the last 2 years and would like to get into cakes! I use bottles when decorating cookies.what brand of piping bags do you suggest?
Thanks so much!!
Can i use white chocolate chips instead of candy melt?
Did you make this recipe?
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