Recipes: Valentines Day Classic Cake

                   Hi everyone! I hope you are having a fabulous week! I can't believe we are already in February and only a week or so away from Valentines Day already. Crazy! As you know from my previous blog posts, we have just finished our January Whole 30 so this is a funny post going from healthy food to a  delicious cake haha! But, the truth is I love to bake. Baking is so therapeutic for me and brings me so much happiness. Even if I just have a bite or don't eat any of it; regardless, I just like to bake for people. I think this is in my blood and DNA from my mother, and both of my grandma's (which I am totally okay with :))

                   With the Valentines Day holiday quickly approaching, I thought it would be fun to share a classic and yummy yellow cake with chocolate frosting with you. This is a great recipe and so delicious. I will also be sharing a new cookie recipe with you this week as well so stay tuned for that but to start this off, here is the cake recipe. I hope you enjoy this and hope you enjoy the Valentines Day kitchen details. Happy Tuesday :) xo

Yellow Cake recipe:

Ingredients:

-4 large eggs

-1 cup of milk

-2 teaspoons of vanilla

2 Tablespoons of vegetable oil

-2 1/2 cups of cake flour

-1 1/2 cups of sugar

-1 teaspoon of salt

-2 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder

-1 1/2 sticks of unsalted butter softened  

Details: 

-preheat your oven to 350

-grease two 8 inch baking pans 

-use this same mixture/details below for both of your 8 inch baking pans

-in a large mixing bowl combine your eggs, milk, and your other liquid ingredients here

-using a separate bowl combine the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder

-whisk the dry ingredients 

-then, add in small amounts of your butter a few pieces at a time to the dry ingredients bowl

-mix this until the dry ingredients are moistened by the butter and form crumbles

-then add 1/2 of the liquid egg mixture to the dry ingredients

-the batter will begin to thicken 

-then pour in the remaining egg mixture and beating/stirring until smooth

-bake at 350 for 30-35 min or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean

-Let the cake cool completely before stacking on top of each other or cutting/icing

Chocolate Frosting:

ingredients:

-2 sticks of unsalted butter softened 

-6 cups of powdered sugar 

-1 cup of cocoa 

-1/2 cup of milk

-2 teaspoons of vanilla

details:

-beat your butter first for a couple minutes on medium speed of your mixture 

-then, add your vanilla and blend into the butter

-then, add in your powdered sugar and cocoa powder 

-add in your milk 

-begin beating at a low speed until a thicker consistency