Spice Layer Cake with Vanilla Buttercream Cream Cheese Frosting. Spiced buttercream is the perfect frosting to pair with pumpkin, chocolate or vanilla cake! With cinnamon and nutmeg, is this a great fall spice frosting! This recipe came to life because I was making this doctored up pumpkin cake BUT I didn't want to frost it with cream cheese frosting.
Cream cheese is my favorite with carrot cake, but if not using that I would use either the Classic Vanilla or Fluffy Vanilla Buttercream recipe under the fondant.
Cake & Frosting ยป Cream Cheese Buttercream Frosting.
For this recipe you'll need: cake flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg, cayenne, butter, light brown sugar, granulated sugar, eggs, vanilla, buttermilk, whiskey, cream cheese, maple syrup, maple extract, heavy cream, Confectioner's sugar, toasted pecan halves for optional garnish Spice Cake Recipe Backstory Instructions Beat the cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, and salt with an electric mixer on low until combined.
You can cook Spice Layer Cake with Vanilla Buttercream Cream Cheese Frosting using 17 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Spice Layer Cake with Vanilla Buttercream Cream Cheese Frosting
- It's 2 1/2 cup of all-purpose flour.
- You need 1/4 cup of cornstarch.
- It's 4 tsp of baking powder.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
- You need 2 tsp of ground ginger.
- Prepare 1 tsp of ground cinnamon.
- You need 1/2 tsp of ground nutmeg.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of ground cloves.
- It's 1 cup of whole milk.
- It's 3 of large eggs.
- You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
- It's 1 cup of unsalted butter ( 2 sticks ), at room temperature.
- Prepare 2 cup of granulated sugar.
- It's 1/2 cup of raisins ( optional ).
- It's 1 of recipe Vanilla Cream Cheese Buttercream Frosting, recipe attached below.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of cinnamon sugar, recipe attached below.
- It's 1 tbsp of chopped pecans.
Beat cream cheese and butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Increase speed to medium, and beat until well blended and smooth. The most basic vanilla buttercream frosting contains good quality butter, powdered sugar and vanilla flavoring beaten together until light and fluffy. The addition of cream cheese to this mixture will make cream cheese buttercream frosting, which is popular on red velvet and carrot cake, as well as cinnamon buns.
Spice Layer Cake with Vanilla Buttercream Cream Cheese Frosting step by step
- Preheat oven to 350. Spray 2 - 9 inch cake pans with non stick spray..
- In a medium bowl whisk flour, cornstarch, baking powder, salt, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves, mix well and set aside..
- In a large bowl beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 4 to 5 minutes, add eggs, milk and vanilla beat until combined. Add flour mixture mixing just until combined, do not over mix., fold in raisins, if using..
- Divide batter evenly in prepared pans. Bake 25 to 30 minutes until a toothpick inseted in center comes out clean..
- Cool in pans on rack about 15 minutes, then remove from pans and cool completely..
- For a four layer cake, using a sharp large knife cut each ccooled cake in half, to make four layers.
- Place one layer of cake on serving plate, frost top with 1/4 of the Vanilla Buttercream Cream Cheese Frosting, add another layer and frost top, add third layer and frost top, finally add top layer and frost top of that. I did not frost sides. https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/363307-vanilla-buttercream-cream-cheese-frosting.
- Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar and chopped pecans. https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/350614-cinnamon-sugar.
- Because of the cream cheese in the frosting, this cake is best stored in refrigerator, but served at room temperature..
With the mixer on low, slowly add sugar, scraping down the sides of the bowls as necessary. Add vanilla and increase mixer speed to medium. Place the first cake on a plate, then top with a large dollop of frosting. Add more powdered sugar as needed until frosting is a thick spreadable consistency. Each cake layer is so moist and packed full of flavor.