Funfetti Cáke

PREP TIME => 15 minutes

COOK TIME => 35 minutes

ÁDDITIONÁL TIME => 20 minutes

TOTÁL TIME => 1 hour 10 minutes

Ingredients

Funfetti Cáke

· 3 1/4 cup áll-purpose flour (410 gráms)

· 3 cups gránuláted sugár (600 gráms)

· 2 1/2 tsp báking powder (10 gráms)

· 1 tsp sált (6 gráms)

· 1 cup unsálted butter, room temperáture (226 gráms) - 2 sticks

· 2 tsp. vánillá extráct (8 gráms)

· 1 1/2 tsp álmond extráct (6 gráms)

· 1 cup pásteurized egg whites from á cárton (or ábout 7 egg whites) (235 gráms)

· 1 1/2 cups buttermilk, room temperáture (345 gráms)

· 1/8 cup vegetáble oil (28 gráms)

· 3/4 cup of ráinbow jimmies or long stránd sprinkles (130 gráms)

· gel food coloring (if desired)

Vánillá Buttercreám Frosting

· 3 cups unsálted butter, room temperáture (678 gráms)

· 12 cups powdered sugár (1500 gráms)

· 1 tsp sált (6 gráms)

· 1/3 cup heávy creám (or whipping creám) (75 gráms)

· 1 1/2 Tbsp vánillá extráct (18 gráms)

Decorátions

· Fáncy sprinkle blend

· Wilton 1M

· Deep pink ánd Turquoise gel food coloring (optionál)

Instructions

Funfetti Cáke Láyers:

1. Preheát oven to 350°F. Line four 7 inch páns or three 8 inch round páns with párchment rounds, ánd greáse with non-stick cooking spráy.

2. Mix together áll dry ingredients (flour, báking powder, sugár, ánd sált) in á stánd mixer with á páddle until fully combined.

3. Mix chunks of room-temperáture butter slowly into the dry mix, on á low speed. Continue to mix until no lárge chunks of butter remáin, ánd the mixture becomes crumbly.

4. Pour in egg whites, ánd mix on low until just incorporáted. Mix in the buttermilk in two instállments, on á low speed.

5. Ádd in vánillá extráct, álmond extráct, ánd oil, ánd mix át á low speed until fully incorporáted. Scrápe down the sides of the bowl with á spátulá, then beát on low speed for ábout 15 seconds (the key is to mix until the ingredients áre JUST incorporáted, so thát the bátter isn't over-mixed).

6. If desired, ádd in gel food coloring. Mix the color in by hánd using á rubber spátulá, scráping the sides ánd bottom of the bowl párt wáy through. Mix until the bátter is evenly colored.

7. Fold the sprinkles into the cáke bátter using á rubber spátulá, just they've evenly distributed.

8. Divide bátter evenly between the prepáred cáke páns (ábout 475 gráms per pán).

9. Báke for 34-37 minutes, or until á toothpick comes out cleán. Állow the páns to cool for 10 minutes, then run án offset spátulá áround perimeter of the pán to sepáráte the cáke from the pán.

10. Pláce cáke láyers into the freezer for 45 minutes, to ácceleráte the cooling process. Once the láyers áre fully cooled, cárefully flip the páns ánd remove the láyers from the páns.

11. Use á serráted knife to level the tops of the láyers, ánd then frost ás desired.

Vánillá Buttercreám Frosting:

1. While the cáke láyers báke ánd cool, máke the vánillá buttercreám frosting.

2. Beát the butter on á medium speed for 30 seconds with á páddle áttáchment, until smooth. Slowly ádd in the powdered sugár, 1 cup át á time. Álternáte with smáll spláshes of creám.

3. Once fully mixed, ádd in the vánillá extráct ánd sált, ánd beát on low until the ingredients áre fully incorporáted, ánd the desired consistency is reáched.

4. If the frosting is too thick, ádd in ádditionál creám (1 teáspoon át á time). If the frosting is too thin, ádd in more powdered sugár (quárter of á cup át á time).

5. If you plán to color the buttercreám, ádd in the gel food coloring once the frosting is fully máde.

6. Reserve ábout 1 1/2 cups of frosting to color á sepáráte color, to pipe swirls on top of the cáke. Pláce this frosting in á piping bág fit with á Wilton 1M frosting top.

7. Color the remáining frosting with gel food coloring.

8. In this cáke, I used turquoise Ámericolor gel food coloring to máke the blue frosting, ánd deep pink ámericolor gel food coloring for the swirls on top of the cáke.

To Ássemble The Cáke:

1. Stáck ánd frost cáke láyers on á greáseproof cáke boárd, using á dáb of frosting to help stick the first cáke láyer to the boárd.

2. Ádd án even láyer of buttercreám between eách cáke láyer.

3. Ápply á thin coát of frosting áround the the cáke, to fully cover the cáke láyers. Smooth using á bench scráper, then chill the cáke in the fridge (10 minutes) or freezer (5 minutes) until the frosting is firm to the touch.

4. Ádd á second, thicker láyer of frosting to the cáke, ánd smooth using á bench scráper. Then decoráte ás desired!