White Cake with Jack Daniels Buttercream
4 min readWhite Cake with Jack Daniels Butter Cream has 3 layers of moist, tender cake lined in a luscious buttercream flavored with Jack Daniels.

Distinctive recipes for primary desserts like white or chocolate cake will be so laborious to seek out. This White on White Cake with Jack Daniel’s Buttercream is a recipe from The Pastry Queen: Royally Good Recipes from the Texas Hill Nation’s Reasonably Candy Bakery & Cafe (considered one of my favourite cookbooks). The cake batter half is improbable and will turn out to be my go to recipe for making white layer desserts.

Jack Daniels Buttercream
I had excessive hopes for the Jack Daniel’s Buttercream. Who wouldn’t have excessive hopes for a buttercream with whiskey and 6 sticks of butter? Sure, you learn that proper. SIX sticks of butter. However the Buttercream was a disapointment. I sort of preferred it one chunk, then didn’t the following chunk. General, I’ll must say it was the strangest frosting I’ve ever tasted. The feel was very uncommon and it nearly tasted just like the cake was frosted with nothing however an obscene quantity of butter that had been whipped till velvety and silken. I didn’t really feel like there was sufficient sweetness in it to distract from the style of butter.

White Cake Batter
Nevertheless, in case you are in search of a white cake batter, this simply may be the one. The cake layers are skinny, however they’re exceptionally moist and tender with great taste. Probably the greatest issues about this cake is the desserts bake up with fully flat tops. There’s no have to take a knife to them to get a fair layer cake. Though I do want I had scraped a little bit of the underside my center cake layer which bought a little bit too brown.
When you’re nonetheless in search of a Christmas current for somebody who likes to bake, The Pastry Queen is considered one of my favourite, favourite cookbooks.


Extra Layer Desserts
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To make cake, preheat oven to 350 levels with 1 rack one-third from the underside of the oven and a second rack two-thirds from the underside. Line three 9-inch cake pans with parchment paper rounds and spray with Baker’s Pleasure or butter and flour.
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In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking soda, salt, and baking powder.
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Utilizing an electrical mixer, beat butter and sugar on medium pace with a paddle attachment till mild and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
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Scrape down sides of bowl and add egg whites and vanilla. Beat on medium pace for 1 minute.
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Add 1/3 of flour combination and beat on medium pace till integrated.
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Add half of buttermilk and beat on medium till combined in.
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Scrape down sides of bowl and repeat including flour combination and buttermilk, ending with remaining 1/3 of flour. Batter can be thick and shiny.
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Pour batter evenly into ready pans. Set two cake pans on 1 oven rack and the third pan on the second rack, staggering them so desserts aren’t straight over one another.
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Bake 25 to 35 minutes, till the tops are flat and browned.
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Cool desserts in pans for 10 minutes. Invert onto racks to chill fully. (Desserts will be wrapped in plastic wrap and frozen for as much as 3 weeks.)
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For Buttercream, use an electrical mixer with a whisk attachment to beat the eggs and egg yolks at excessive pace for five minutes.
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Mix water and sugar in a medium saucepan and simmer till it reaches mushy ball stage, between 234 and 240 levels on a sweet thermometer.
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Rapidly switch the combination to a heatproof liquid measuring cup.
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In a really gradual stream, add this liquid to the egg combination whereas the mixer is on low pace.
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Improve pace to medium and beat for about 7 minutes, till combination has cooled. Bowl ought to simply barely really feel heat.
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Add butter a half stick at a time and beat on medium pace for 20 seconds after every addition.
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In any case butter has been added proceed to beat on medium pace for 3 minutes, till thickened barely.
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Stir in salt and whiskey.
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Unfold a thick layer of frosting on high of 1 cake layer. Add second layer and high it with a thick layer of frosting. Add the highest layer and frost the highest and sides.
The cake will maintain lined at room temperature for two days.
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Initially printed December 8, 2014.
Recipe Supply: The Pastry Queen: Royally Good Recipes from the Texas Hill Nation’s Reasonably Candy Bakery & Café
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