Old Fashioned Yellow Cake

I put this cake together a while ago, but kept putting off putting it online. It was pretty good--I didn't have enough frosting to cover the whole thing so I quickly whipped up, with whatever ingredients I had, a spur-of-the-moment kahlua buttercream for the center. It would have been better with chocolate ganache or mousse, but I didn't have the ingredients. Overall, the cake was pretty good! The easiest & a really good cake recipe. I definitely want to re-try this one with a different kind of center. The frosting was light and so was the cake, so they went well together, but if I have enough ingredients next time I might opt for a light buttercream. I really have to do something about not having any ingredients for making something quality instead of opting for whatever's easiest...but it was a great change to make a yellow cake instead of everybody's same-old favorite chocolate stuff!

Oh, one more thing, I baked this in 9-inch cake rounds for 20-30 minutes.

Old-Fashioned Yellow Cake
Adapted by Cinnamon Girl Recipes from McCall's Book of Cakes and Pies

2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
1 + 1/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour two 8-inch cake pans.

In a large mixing bowl sift flour and sugar, baking powder and salt.

Add butter, milk and vanilla. Beat with a hand mixer on medium speed for 2 minutes, occasionally scraping sides of bowl.

Add eggs, beat for 2 more minutes.

Pour batter into prepared pans, dividing equally among both. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

Cool in pans on wire racks 10 minutes. Turn out and cool thoroughly on wire racks. Frost with cream cheese or whip cream frosting. If using whip cream frosting the cake must be refrigerated.

Whipped Cream Frosting

1 cup heavy whipping cream
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 tablespoon sugar

Combine all ingredients in a large mixing bowl and chill with the whisk/beaters you will be mixing it with. Cover and chill for 30 minutes, then beat the mixture until stiff peaks form.

Kahlua Buttercream

4-5 tbsp butter, room temperature
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 tbsp cocoa
1-2 tbsp kahlua
1 tbsp milk

Beat butter until smooth. Add powdered sugar, mix until combined. Add rest of ingredients & beat until fluffy.