- Yield: 30 slices or more depending on how big the slice is cut.
Ingredients
For Cake:
- 2 box Creamsicle Orange Cake Mix
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 8 egg whites
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 4 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 cups sour cream (16oz container)
- 4 teaspoons vanilla
For Icing:
- 2 cups butter, softened
- 16 ounces Cream cheese, softened
- 4 teaspoons vanilla
- 16 cups powdered sugar + more if desired for thicker icing
You'll also need flowers for decorating
Instructions
For Cake:
- Pre-heat oven to 350F.
- In a large bowl, mix together cake mix, flour, sugar, and salt. In the bowl of a mixer, mix together the egg whites and vanilla, water and vanilla.
- Mix on low for about 10 seconds.
- Slowly add the dry mix a little at a time.
- Mixing on low until everything is combined. Add sour cream and mix well.
- Pour into cake pans and bake for 30 minutes or until done. --- for this cake I used two- 8inch cake pans and two - 4inch cake pans
- Remove from oven and cool.
For Icing:
- Cream butter in the bowl of a mixer.
- Add cream cheese and mix well.
- Slowly add powdered sugar while mixing.
- Add vanilla. Whip.
- Add more powdered sugar for thicker icing or add more milk for thinner icing.
- Reserve about 1 cup - 1 1/2 cups of frosting for icing border and the flowers if desired.
To assemble:
- Once cooled, level the cakes if needed but carefully cutting off the rounded tops to make a flat surface. Cut each layer in half making multiple layers. Stack layers onto a cake board, adding a thick layer of frosting in between each layer.
- Press the cakes down so that some of the frosting comes out on the sides.
- Using a bench scraper or a long icing spatula, drag the icing around the cake. Place the bench scraper edge flat against the cake and rotate the cake to smooth it out, pull the scraper around the cake, removing excess icing.
- Add a little bit of icing at the time, pulling it around the cake as if you were putting on a crumb coat. Don't cover the entire cake, as you want some of the cake to peak through the icing.
- Work in sections until the entire cake is complete.
- Decorate with fake or real flowers.
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