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.
Just so you know, I named it the OMG cake before I even read a word. Bet this travels well to Atlanta (hint hint)
OM2G Cake…..I love it. I’ll have to tell that to my kiddo and he’ll probably start “roffle-ing”….you know ROFLing….except he uses it like and ACTUAL word? Roffle-ing.
Yummy! Must make for my two. They have 10 days left!
Damn, that is one fine looking cake. And chocolate malted frosting? Heavenly.
Ohhhh, sweet chocolate heaven! I will be trying this recipe – thank you so much for sharing! And I have that cake stand too… will have to put it on that too 😉
This is bake perfection. Looks amazing and I seriously want to eat it right off the screen right now.
Oh I love the OM2G cake! It’s so beautiful (yellow cake with chocolate frosting has always been my favorite). ps I bake with salted butter too.
Yowzaz! Looks perfect, Amy, and so moist. Can you bring a cake carrier to Blogher Food? 😉
Gorgeous. My mouth is watering
This looks amazing! I love yellow cake too, can’t wait to try this.
mmm looks so good yet so simple!!
My all-time favorite cake! It looks fantastic – lucky kiddos! 🙂
This looks like the perfect nostalgic vanilla birthday cake! I have never been too much a fan of chocolate cakes, but vanilla is my language!
Will you be my mom and make me cakes with cool abbreviations? Surely my real mom won’t mind sharing.
Amy, this is my hubby’s favorite kind of cake! That frosting look so creamy, I just want to stick my finger in it!
this sure does look fantastic!!! loving the new design!
delicious!! definitely going to try this recipe! 🙂
What an amazingly simple dessert, that looks absolutely delicious! Wonderful pictures! Only 1 1/2 weeks of school left here!
i love the sound of the malted frosting, its so beautiful and glossy. I think i need to track down some malt powder.
THIS IS MY FAVORITE CAKE!