Birthday Cake

There's nothing better than dipping your finger (I am mean, a spoon...) into scrumptious buttercream frosting.  My husband even nags me to make the frosting long before the cupcakes (or cake) are ready for them.


Saturday I was baking a cake for my dear friend *of 16 years* birthday.  I didn't know what to make, but decided a more traditional cake would be best.  So I went for my yellow cake with chocolate buttercream.

My hands down favorite yellow cake recipe, that I've made came from King Arthur flour.  The recipe can be found here: Golden Vanilla Cake. Everytime I make this cake though, I am afraid that I have over baked it.  The outside feels dry, but then everytime I bite into a piece of this cake, I am so impressed with how moist it is.

For the frosting, I have made various chocolate buttercreams.  My favorite has been Georgetown Cupcake's recipe for it (Found in the book, The Cupcake Diaries).  This time though, I decided to search around for a different buttercream just because...well, maybe I am anxious to get to the 250 mark of Pinterest recipes I've tried. So anyway, I read a few recipes and decided upon Savory Sweet Life's posting of Chocolate Buttercream.

My thoughts?  It was an excellent consistency.  For my layered cake I made 1.5X of the recipe. The frosting had great flavor, but tasted more dark chocolatey than a traditonal chocolate buttercream.  Will I make it again? Probably, but I think I am set in my ways of favoring Georgetown Cupcake's chocolate buttercream.

Here's the final product- complete with a number sign I made with my Cricut.