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So every Thanksgiving it falls to me to make our main dessert. My aunt usually brings a pie or two and then we switch off for Christmas.
So this year I had an idea to do a Neapolitan cake after seeing a tutorial on youtube on how to make a checkerboard one. I wasn't sure if I was going to do the checkerboard effect or not until I was actually staring at the baked cakes and decided what the hey!
For anyone who thinks this is difficult (I used to be one of them) it couldn't be easier and the look on my family's faces when I cut into the cake was priceless.
I just used store bought mix but on the white cake to make it vanilla I added about a teaspoon of vanilla extract and an entire Madagascar vanilla bean. It was one of the moistest cakes I have EVER made. And the strawberry cake tasted so good. The buttercream ended up being really fluffy, mostly because I forgot to put the other cup of butter in when I mixed it so I had to put it back in but it was a good mistake!
If anyone would like the link to the tutorial I used let me know. This baker has made some amazing cakes!
Edit! Here is the link to her website with the post. She has a step by step tutorial video linked there. http://cookiescupcakesandcardio.com/?p=5015
So this year I had an idea to do a Neapolitan cake after seeing a tutorial on youtube on how to make a checkerboard one. I wasn't sure if I was going to do the checkerboard effect or not until I was actually staring at the baked cakes and decided what the hey!
For anyone who thinks this is difficult (I used to be one of them) it couldn't be easier and the look on my family's faces when I cut into the cake was priceless.
I just used store bought mix but on the white cake to make it vanilla I added about a teaspoon of vanilla extract and an entire Madagascar vanilla bean. It was one of the moistest cakes I have EVER made. And the strawberry cake tasted so good. The buttercream ended up being really fluffy, mostly because I forgot to put the other cup of butter in when I mixed it so I had to put it back in but it was a good mistake!
If anyone would like the link to the tutorial I used let me know. This baker has made some amazing cakes!
Edit! Here is the link to her website with the post. She has a step by step tutorial video linked there. http://cookiescupcakesandcardio.com/?p=5015