Yellow Butter Cake with Malted Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
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This classic Yellow Butter Cake with Malted Chocolate Buttercream Frosting will make any celebration that much sweeter.
My kids have one more month of school left. One more month or rushing out the door to avoid a tardy. One more month of tests and homework. One more month of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches every day for lunch.
So I made them a cake.
I’m calling it the OMTG Cake. (That’s One Month to Go Cake, for those of you not up on your hip acronyms.) This is a basic yellow cake topped with a splendid chocolate malted buttercream frosting. Malted Buttercream Chocolate Frosting? Surely that will help kids everywhere push through one more month of standing in single file?
A few more cakes for those special occasions:
- Dark Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cake Recipe
- Pineapple Cake Recipe
- Meyer Lemon Thyme Icebox Cake Recipe
Yellow Butter Cake with Malted Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
A delicious classic yellow cake with a malted chocolate buttercream frosting.
Ingredients
- 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 16 tablespoons (2 sticks) butter, room temperature (I used salted)
- 1 cup milk, divided
- 4 eggs
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Malted Buttercream Chocolate Frosting Recipe
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350-degrees F.
- In a mixing bowl, lightly whisk together first 4 ingredients; flour, sugar, baking powder, salt.
- Add butter and 3/4 cup milk to the mixture, and beat together until just combined. Stop to scrape sides down a couple of times. Do not over beat.
- In a separate bowl, lightly beat eggs, remaining milk and vanilla extract together. Gradually add to the flour/sugar/butter mixture, and mix until just combined. Again, do not over beat.
- Divide batter into two greased and parchment lined 9-inch round baking pans.
- Bake at 350-degrees F for 30-35 minutes, or until cake tester or toothpick comes out clean.
- Once cooled completely, frost with Malted Buttercream Chocolate Frosting.
Notes
Frosting adapted from Southern Living March 2009.
Beautiful!!!
Ooo, you just made a classic cake even better with that frosting!
Haven’t made a malted chocolate icing in years. Thanks for the recipe!
We have one day to go here! ONE day! But this cake will make their month fly by!
I love your “I’m not a baker disclaimer.” 🙂
This looks… well… just delicious. I need this for breakfast.
You’ve just added a wonderful twist to a classic yellow cake- looks great! I have a brillint chocolate cake in my recipe box but not a yellow one so I’m relly keen to give this one a go. I’ll let you know how I get on..
This is one of those classic cake flavor combinations that just never gets old… And your version looks even better! Bookmarking it right away… Can’t wait to try it!
My mouth is just watering!
This cake looks amazingly moist and delicious, perfect!
Well, I am a baker, until you get me around a cake. Then I pretty much forget all I know and everything just turns out horrible and dry. This one looks delicious, though…maybe I’ll give it a go this evening.
Just beautiful! A classic cake 🙂
This looks exactly like a yellow butter cake should…yellow and moist and perfect! You win 🙂
I skipped breakfast. I clicked on your post. I am now tortured and my tummy is disturbing my co-worker. Just sayin’.
Oh by the way YUM!!
This looks fabulous and I love the idea of using malt in the frosting. Brilliant!!
I am drooling over here:)
Yum. I’ll take four.
Wow, I feel like I can reach out and stick my finger in that frosting. I like the name of it too… totally unapologetic about the butter.
That is one beautiful cake. Your kids are lucky to have a mom as great as you.
So elegantly simple…I love it!
I just got some malted milk powder so I’m very excited to try this. Is some of the buttercream recipe missing?