Yellow Birthday Cake with Milk Chocolate Frosting

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I stole this recipe for Yellow Birthday Cake with Milk Chocolate Frosting from modernhoney.com. Nothing beats a homemade cake! Yellow cake batter is made by combining wet and dry ingredients and beating until light and fluffy. After baking the cake layers and letting them cool, frosting is made. Butter, cocoa and powdered sugar are creamed together and then milk is added to make the frosting spreadable. The cake can be served with the just the frosting or decorated to your preference.

Preheat oven to 350 F. In a standing mixer, stir together 2 ¼ cups flour, 1 ½ cups sugar, 2 tsp baking powder and ¾ tsp salt. Then in a small bowl, whisk together 4 eggs, ⅔ cup milk and 1 tsp vanilla.

Next beat 1 cup butter, softened, cut in cubes into the flour mixture, one cube at a time. Continue to beat until it resembles coarse crumbs. Add ½ of the egg-milk mixture and 2 tbsp vegetable oil.

Then beat until the batter is light and fluffy. Next, add remaining egg mixture and ⅓ cup instant vanilla pudding mix and mix just until combined.

Spread into greased 8 or 9 inch cake pans and smooth top with spatula. Bake for 16-22 minutes, depending on depth of pans.

Let the cakes cool. Run knife around edge of pan and flip over onto cooling racks. Then start the frosting by creaming together 1 ½ cups softened butter, 1 cup cocoa and 5 cups powdered sugar.

Then add in ⅓ cup cream, half-n-half or milk, you may need to add more milk to reach your desired consistency.

Next, frost the cake!

You can leave the cake just frosted..

or decorate as desired.

If you liked the recipe for Yellow Birthday Cake with Milk Chocolate Frosting you can try other cake recipes like Nothing Bundt Cakes Lemon Cake Copycat, Mama Dip’s Carrot Cake, Simply Delicious Strawberry Cake or White Chocolate Funfetti Chip Cake.

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Yellow Birthday Cake with Milk Chocolate Frosting

Course Dessert
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Servings 16 people

Ingredients

  • 4 large eggs
  • ⅔ cup whole milk or buttermilk
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 ¼ cups flour
  • 1 ½ cups sugar
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • ¾ tsp salt
  • 1 cup butter softened, cut in cubes
  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  • ⅓ cup Instant Vanilla Pudding mix 3.4 oz box
  • 1 ½ cups butter softened
  • 1 cup cocoa
  • 5 cups powdered sugar
  • ⅓ cup cream half-n-half or milk

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 F.

  2. In a small bowl, whisk together eggs, milk and vanilla.

  3. In a standing mixer, stir together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
  4. Beat the butter into the flour mixture, one cube at a time. Continue to beat until it resembles coarse crumbs.
  5. Add ½ of the egg-milk mixture and oil, beat until the batter is light and fluffy. Add remaining egg mixture and vanilla pudding and mix just until combined.
  6. Take a spatula and scrap the sides of the bowl.
  7. Spread into greased 8 or 9 inch cake pans and smooth top with spatula.
  8. Bake 16-22 minutes, depending on depth of pans. If the cake layers are thin, they will cook for less time than the thicker layers.
  9. Let cakes cool. Run knife around edge of pan and flip over. Frost with milk chocolate frosting.
  10. In a mixing bowl, cream together butter, cocoa, powdered sugar until light and fluffy. You may need to add more milk depending on consistency.
  11. Top cake with chocolate shavings, chocolate chips, sprinkles or mini m&ms.

Recipe Notes

Took much longer than time on recipe (20 mins) to bake, it took 50 minutes for the cakes to be completely cooked through. The finished cake is very dense, next I may try cake flour or sift the flour