let them eat cake!

So, all this wedding business tends to put my sweet tooth on a specific track:  it wants wedding cake, and it wants it NOW.
What is more classic or perfect for wedding cake than a perfect, classic white cake? Nothing. So what did I do this evening in lieu of attending Greek Sing practice? Baked a white cake. :)

recipe courtesy of Magnolia Bakery in nyc

old-fashioned white cake

1 stick unsalted butter
1 1/2 c sugar
2 cups self-rising flour
1 cup milk
2 tsp vanilla
4 large egg whites


grease and flour pans. cream butter. add sugar until fluffy. add flour in three parts, alternating with milk and vanilla. beat egg whites until soft peaks. fold into batter. do not overmix. pour batter into cake pan and bake at 350 for 22-25 mins.

frosting (also courtesy of the magnolias)
vanilla buttercream

1/2 cup (a stick) unsalted butter, very soft
4 cups confectioners’ sugar
1/4 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla extract

mix and frost away, frost away!

And yes, I did try to get fancy, and no, it was no great beauty or masterpiece. But it tastes DIVINE. DIVINE.

Go taste some heaven.

(and thank you Dani for going to look up this recipe for me at home!)

(and thank you sweet parents for taking me to sweetwise to learn to frost cakes properly. i still haven't perfected them, but i'm working on it!)