sunshine dragonfly cake
I have developed a white and a chocolate, but not a yellow cake. And it being Fall I decided to create something with a warm flavor profile. I had watched an episode of Annika, a UK crime mystery drama. Annika had made a Scandinavian cake called a Krysdderkake. I did a little research and this is my take on the Krysdderkake. This cake also transitions well as a gluten free cake.
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- HIGH ALTITUDE RECIPE
- Two cup sugar
- One cup real butter
- 1/2 cup oil
- Three extra large eggs
- 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon golden yellow food coloring gel
- Three cup all purpose flour
- One teaspoon baking soda
- One teaspoon salt
- One tablespoon saigon cinnamon
- Two teaspoon cardamom
- One cup buttermilk
- One cup sour cream
- One teaspoon vanilla extract
- CHOCOLATE CINNAMON FROSTING
- 1/2 cup salted butter
- 1/3 cup sour cream
- 1/2 cup dark cocoa
- 4 teaspoons saigon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon cardamom
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Up to 1/2 cup half and half
- 1/4 cup cocoa, unsweetened
- Abt 4 1/2 cups powdered sugar
How To Make sunshine dragonfly cake
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Step 1Grease and flour two 9 or 10 inch pans.
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Step 2Preheat oven to 325°.
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Step 3Cream butter and sugar.
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Step 4Add oil, eggs, vanilla, and food coloring gel and blend.
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Step 5In a medium bowl stir buttermilk and sour cream till smooth.
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Step 6In a separate bowl add flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and cardamom. Stir with a whisk, blend thoroughly.
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Step 7Alternately add flour mixture and buttermilk sour cream mixture to sugar butter mixture.
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Step 8Make sure to scrape sides, beater and bottom of bowl after each addition.
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Step 9Divide batter into your greased and floured pans.
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Step 10Bake at 325° 35 to 40 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
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Step 11For the frosting
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Step 12In your mixer, cream the butter. Add sour cream, vanilla, salt, cinnamon, cardamom and the dark cocoa.
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Step 13In a separate bowl, whisk unsweetened cocoa into 2 cups of the powdered sugar. Add to the butter mixture. Mix well.
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Step 14Alternately add the 1/2 and 1/2 and as much of the remaining powdered sugar to get a consistency for spreading.
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Step 15When cakes are cool frost then shake cinnamon over the top of cake. Then enjoy!
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