Grown-Up Birthday Cake
★★★★★
PREP TIME
20 minutes
COOK TIME
30 minutes
SERVES
a birthday party
Ingredients
2 1/2 cups
AP flour
1/2 teaspoon
salt
2 1/4 teaspoons
baking powder
2 cups
granulated sugar
4
eggs
1 teaspoon
vanilla
1 cup
white wine
1 cup
olive oil
7 ounces
raspberry jam, preferably homemade, but I used Bonne Maman
1/2 cup
unsalted butter, softened
1 cup
confectioners sugar
1/2 cup
Dutch processed cocoa
1/4 cup
whole milk
1 teaspoon
vanilla
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- Butter and lightly flour 2 nine-inch cake pans.
- Sift together flour, salt, and baking powder. Set aside.
- In a standing mixer, blend sugar and eggs on med-high for a minute. Slowly mix in vanilla, wine, and oil.
- Gently fold dry ingredients into cake batter until smooth.
- Pour batter into prepared pans and bake for 25-30 minutes until cake tester comes out clean. Cool on wire racks.
- Spread jam on one layer; then top with the other. Frost top layer with icing (recipe below).
yellow cake
- Blend butter and sugar. Fold in cocoa and gradually add milk until it starts to look like icing. Mix in vanilla.
bittersweet chocolate buttercream icing
