SIMPLE MAPLE CAKE

Simple Maple Cake image

Provided by Maggie May Schill

Categories Cakes

Time 35m

Number Of Ingredients 15

FOR CAKE:
1 1/2 c cake flour
1/2 c unsalted butter, room temperature
1 Tbsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 c sugar
1 c pure maple syrup
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
3 large eggs, room temperature
1/2 c whole milk, room temperature
FROSTING:
1 c unsalted butter, room temperature
3 c confectioners' sugar
1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1/4 c pure maple syrup

Steps:

1. Pre heat oven to 350'F Grease and flour two 6-inch round cake pans. Set aside.
2. In a large mixing bowl sift flour, baking powder and salt together. Set aside. In a measure cup mix milk and vanilla extract. Set aside.
3. In another large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar together. Gradually mix in eggs, one at a time, completely incorporating each egg before adding the next.
4. Beat maple syrup into the sugar/egg batter.
5. Mix in 1/2 the flour mixture to the sugar/egg batter. Add the entire whole milk mixture and completely mix into batter. Then mix in the rest of the flour mixture. Beat until completely incorporated.
6. Pour batter out evenly among the two cake pans and bake on the center rack for about 25-30 minutes; or until a tooth pick comes out clean. Cool on wire wrack for 10 minutes, then turn out to complete cooling.
7. For Frosting: Beat butter and vanilla together until butter is fluffy.(about 2 minutes) Gradually add confectioners' sugar until completely incorporated. Fold in maple syrup.
8. Once cakes are cooled, level off any doming on the cakes with a serrated knife, or cake leveler. Frost first cake and stack second cake on top of the first. Frost entire cake as desired. Serve at room temperature. Do not refrigerate, or cake will dry out.