LAMB CAKE WITH WHITE-CHOCOLATE BUTTERCREAM

Lamb Cake with White-Chocolate Buttercream image

Provided by Martha Stewart

Yield Serves 8 to 10

Number Of Ingredients 13

Unsalted butter, softened, for molds
2 cups plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
1 2/3 cups sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 large egg, plus 1 large egg yolk
1 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/2 cup seedless blackberry or raspberry jam
White-Chocolate Buttercream for Lamb Cake
White-Chocolate Curls

Steps:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter both halves of an 8-cup lamb-shaped cake mold. Dust with flour; tap out excess.
Sift flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together into the bowl of an electric mixer. Add egg and yolk, 3/4 cup warm water, the buttermilk, oil, and vanilla. Beat on low speed until smooth.
Pour batter into halves of molds. Bake until a tester comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Let cool in molds on wire racks 30 minutes. Unmold; let cool completely.
Trim flat side of each. Trim excess from edges. Cover flat side of 1 cake with jam. Turn halves upright; stick together.
Spread a thin layer of pale-yellow buttercream over cake, sealing edges. Refrigerate 30 minutes. Spread with a second layer, smoothing around head.
Cover with chocolate curls (exclude head). Put brown buttercream in a pastry bag fitted with a small plain round tip; pipe eyes and mouth. Refrigerate 30 minutes or up to 2 days.