My mom’s birthday cake, using this recipe. Ignore the decorations – my pastry bag is M.I.A. so I was forced to use canned decorator’s icing!
This is an adaptation of Betty Crocker’s Bonnie Butter Cake, which appears in her classic cookbook. I’ve amended the dairy ingredients as necessary.
Ingredients:
2/3 cup Earth Balance butter sticks
1 1/3 cups sugar
3 tbs Energy Egg replacement
4 tbs water
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
3 cups cake flour or 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 1/4 cups soy, almond, or coconut milk of your choice
2 tbs dried lavender
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter two 9-inch baking pans.
Mix butter and sugar until fluffy (about 5 minutes). Mix the egg replacement and water and add, beating until combined and scraping the bowl occasionally. In a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix in lavender. On low speed, slowly add to butter/sugar mixture alternately with milk. Pour into pans. Bake for 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely. Fill cakes with lemon filling and frost with vanilla frosting.
Vanilla Frosting
1/3 cups softened Earth Balance butter
3 cups confection sugar, sifted
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
2 tbs milk
Food coloring of your choice (optional)
1 tbs lavender *
Lavender butter icing goes well with this recipe, but if you don’t like too much of a lavender taste, just use the plain vanilla frosting recipe.
Blend butter and sugar until combined. Stir in vanilla and add milk until frosting is of spreading consistency. Add food coloring and mix until color is blended.
*To add lavender flavoring to this icing, steep 1 tbs lavender in 1/4 cup milk until it comes to a boil. Turn off heat and allow mixture to steep for 10-20 minutes, depending on how strong a flavor you prefer. Strain and use the liquid in place of plain milk in the frosting recipe.
Lemon Frosting filling
1/3 cups softened Earth Balance butter
3 cups confection sugar, sifted
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
Juice of 1 lemon, plus 1/2 tsp lemon zest.
Omit vanilla and milk in the above frosting recipe and instead add lemon and zest as liquid.
