Christmas Tree Cake
This moist Christmas tree cake includes vanilla layers enrobed in vanilla buttercream, covered with Christmas trees this cake turns into a winter.
You understand exactly where I got the inspiration for this particular 17, if you watched my Christmas tree cupcakes. I cut a couple ice cream cones and utilized them as the foundation for different pine trees over the side and top of the cake. The winter landscape, dollops of buttercream and a dusting of powdered sugar finish.
The dessert's star is that the cake! Pillowy yummy and tender.
Christmas Tree Cake
A Christmas tree cake with creamy vanilla buttercream, covered with Christmas trees which turn this cake into a winter wonderland.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 8 pieces
Calories 330 kcal
Writer John Kanell
Ingredients
For the Cake
- 1 teaspoon baking powder 3g
- Space temperature, 3/4 cup unsalted butter 176g
- 3 egg whites
- 1 teaspoon vanilla 5mL
For the Buttercream
- 1.5 pounds confectioners sugar 680g
- 1 pound unsalted butter 454g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 5mL
- 5 drops green food coloring to the trees
Directions
For the cake
- Butter and flour three pans. To get baking as 14, I use cake strips my pans.
- In another bowl, beat the ingredients together.
- Divide into the sandwich. I love to use a kitchen scale to quantify for layers that are .
- Allow the layers cool in the pans for approximately 4 minutes, then ditch out each coating onto a rack.
For the Frosting
- Add the sugar and blend. Add salt and the vanilla. You might add milk a tablespoon at a time to find a consistency if necessary.
- Split the buttercream into two different batches. For the heap that is colored, add the food coloring, mix until blended.
For the Meeting
- Across the side of the cake for your Christmas trees, use a knife to cut at the ice cream cones into sizes that are various. As soon as you've got an assortment of sizes that are desirable cut them in half.
- Utilize a couple 30 trick to pipe dollops that are star-shaped onto the cone's surface starting at the bottom and working to the top. Put the cones which were cut across the trunk of your cake in half prior to piping.
- When your trees all have been piped and put, sift confectioners' sugar onto the top of the cake and it is ready to serve!