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White Cake with Buttercream Frosting Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 cup salted butter, softened
1½ cups granulated sugar
2 tsps. almond extract
½ cup sour cream, room temperature
3½ cups cake flour
4 tsps. baking powder
½ tsp. salt
6 large egg whites, room temperature
1 cup milk or buttermilk, room temperature

Buttercream Frosting:
1½ cups salted butter, softened
2 tsps. almond extract
4 cups powdered sugar
1 Tbsp. milk

Directions:
Directions:
Grease two 9" pans lined with parchment paper. Heat oven to 350º. In a large mixing bowl use hand mixer to cream butter and sugar together. Beat in almond extract and sour cream until just combined. Use fork to combine eggs and milk together in a bowl. Set aside. In another mixing bowl combine cake flour, baking powder and salt. Add ⅓ of the dry ingredients to butter mixture and mix until just combined. Add in half of the milk mixture and combine. Add in another ⅓ of the dry ingredients until combined followed by the remainder of the milk mixture. Add in remainder of dry ingredients and mix with hand mixer till just combined, scraping sides of bowl to ensure everything is mixed in. Divide the batter evenly between prepared pans. Bake at 350º for 25 to 30 minutes. Let sit in pans 5 minutes then transfer to wire rack to cool completely before layering and frosting.

Buttercream Frosting:
Using hand mixer whip softened butter and almond extract together. Slowly add in powdered sugar 1 cup at a time. Thin out with milk if too thick.

 

 

 

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