Are you familiar with Monet’s painting “Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge”? Well, this cake was inspired by that painting!! 7th day of the 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS CAKES is painted with White Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Frosting!
It’s time to use our imagination!!! Why this cake for the “7 Swans a swimming”. Well I wanted to make a cake that looks like water where swans would be swimming. This cake kind of reminds me of Monet’s Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge painting. It has the green and blues. Just very soothing colors. I can just imagine the swans swimming on it so there’s the explanation for the inspiration!!
So I am big fan of white chocolate. Even more than chocolate itself. Yes, it’s crazy right!! I mean I will eat chocolate, don’t get me wrong, but if I had to choose, I’d do the white chocolate any day! Now to see if I’m in the minority group of people loving white chocolate, I actually googled how many percent of people prefers white chocolate more than milk chocolate and there’s actually a bar chart!! Brazil is the highest white chocolate lovers. But in all the countries that was shown, Milk Chocolate still reigns supreme. Since we’ve done Chocolate Cake already on the 4th day of Christmas, why not make a White Chocolate Cake?! Let’s make this beautiful cake!!
In a stand mixer bowl mix together the butter and sugar until it’s light and fluffy.
Add the eggs one egg at a time while the mixer is in low speed. Add in the vanilla. Don’t forget to scrape the sides.
Then alternatively add the dry mixture and the milk mixture. And you always want to start with dry mixture and ends with dry mixture. So it goes :
- 1/3 of dry
- ½ of milk
- 1/3 of dry
- ½ of milk
- 1/3 of dry
Pour into the prepared pan and bake for about 40 minutes and cooled.
Now what makes this cake different with other cakes is the white chocolate that’s in the milk. Some recipes uses milk, some uses buttermilk, but this one has white chocolate that is melted with milk. This is what makes it unique!! And believe me, you will taste the white chocOlate when you take a bite of this cake.
After the cake is done, cooled and frosted, you are going to paint the cake. Swipe some colored frosting on the cake. For this cake I am using blue and green frosting, but you can use any color you want on your cake. Then with the back of the spatula, make the waves on the sides and top of the cake.
I love the colors!! And I also made a cake pedestal just for this cake. Isn’t it pretty?!?!?! ? ? ? ?
Happy Baking!!!
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12 servings
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- 5 oz white chocolate chopped
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
- 3 large eggs room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups unsalted butter room temperature
- 7 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3 tbsp heavy cream
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
Ingredients
White Chocolate Cake
Vanilla Frosting
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- Heat milk and chocolate until melted and combined, cool to room temperature.
- Preheat oven to 350F. Grease and flour 2 8inch square cake pan.
- In a medium bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, and salt. This is the dry mixture.
- In a stand mixer bowl, mix butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time fully incorporating after each addition. Then add vanilla.
- Alternatively add dry mixture and milk mixture, beginning and ending with flour. Mix again until everything is combined. Pour evenly into the 2 pans.
- Bake for about 40mins or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Place cakes on wire rack to cool for 10mins then invert on to a wire rack.
- Beat the butter on a medium speed for 30 seconds with a paddle attachment, until smooth.
- Mix in the vanilla and salt.
- Slowly add in the powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time. Alternate with small splashes of cream.
- Beat on low until the ingredients are fully incorporated, and the desired consistency is reached.
- If the frosting is too thick, add more cream 1 tbsp at a time. If the frosting is too thin, add more powdered sugar 2 tbsp at a time.
- Take out 1 cup of the frosting and add in the desired gel food coloring once the frosting and mix again.
- Frost the top of one cake with the frosting. Top with the other cake and frost all surface of the cake.
- Swipe the colored frosting on the cake. Use the back of the spatula to make the waves.
Adapted from : Liv for cake and Chelsweets
