1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup butter
2 eggs
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup milk
Additional items:
2 large pastry bags
2 Wilton tips 1M
2 different colors of food coloring of your choice to color the batter and frosting. A lot of buttercream frosting.
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x9 inch pan or line a muffin pan with paper liners.
2. In a medium bowl, cream together the sugar and butter. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Combine flour, salt and baking powder, add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Finally stir in the milk until batter is smooth. Add a few drops of food coloring of your choice to color the batter. Pour or spoon batter into the prepared pan.
3. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes in the preheated oven. For cupcakes, bake 20 to 25 minutes. Cake is done when it springs back to the touch.
For the frosting, make 3 batches of butter cream frosting. Add food color to two of the batches, and leave one plain. Use the plain frosting to crumb coat the cake. Follow the directions for piping the colored frosting on to the cake as instructed in the video.