Easter Basket Cake

Happy Easter Day & 58th B'day!

It's an Easter Day and it also happen to be my husband's birthday.  Each year I'll baked him a birthday cake to celebrate with my family.  My husband loves Billy's Vanilla cake recipe.  He calls it a New York cake because it reminds him his youth days.  So, I decided to bake his favorite recipe & buttercream too.

Ingredients:
1-3/4 cups cake flour
1-1/4 cups AP flour
2 cups sugars
1 tbsp baking powder
3/4 tsp salt
227g unsalted butter ~ cut 1" cubes
4 large eggs
1 cup whole milk
1 tsp pure vanilla extract

Decoration
Ice-cream cone
Chocolate sticks
Easter mini chocolate eggs
Cherries jelly

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 175 deg C.  Line 2 9" round pan with paper liner, set aside.
2. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine flours, sugar, baking powder & salt; mix on low speed until combined.   Add butter, mixing until just coated with flour.
3. In a large glass measuring cup, whisk together eggs, milk & vanilla.   With mixer on medium speed, add wet ingredients in 3 parts, scraping down sides of bowl before each addition; beat until ingredients are incorporated but do not overbeat.
4. Divide batter evenly in round pan.  Bake, rotating pan halfway through, until cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean about 35mins.
5. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.  Once cake has cooled, frost with buttercream recipe.

Happy 58th B'day