Cake!

Last week I made another 1234 cake, with the same icing recipe, but this time I colored the icing with blue and green food coloring, and I put sprinkles in the cake batter and on top of the icing. I was feeling like birthday cake! It was delicious, and we even got to share it with Josh!

Today I made a yellow layer cake with "Less Sweet Buttercream Icing". I found this recipe and decided to use it because I love buttercream icing, but sometimes I cannot eat it all because it is normally extremely sweet. The icing was delicious! Trent loved the icing, he likes it better than the fluffy white icing I used on the last two cakes that I made. The less sweet buttercream icing is made with 2 pounds of powdered sugar, 3 sticks of butter, 1 cup of shortening, vanilla and salt. This made allot of icing, so I have left overs, which I think I will use to make cupcakes this week and take to work.

For the cake, I used a Wilton yellow basic yellow cake recipe. This cake did not have allot of flavor to me, so I don't think I will use this exact recipe again. I might alter the recipe slightly and try to give it more flavor, but I have another recipe that I would like to try next. This cake is a basic flour, sugar, butter, eggs, baking powder, vanilla recipe. I personally think it had too much flour, and not enough sugar and butter.

The texture is great, and is much fluffier than the 1234 cake, but the 1234 cake definitely tastes better. The 1234 cake is more like a pound cake. The texture of the Wilton basic yellow cake is light and fluffy.


I'm determined to find a yellow cake that taste good, is light and fluffy, and is versatile. The icing is all delicious, so I will continue to use the recipes I have made so far!