Name: Buttermilk Celebration Cake
Yield: Makes a two-layer sheet cake; Serves 12 to 24
Ingredients: 3 cups plus 2 Tbsp [380 g] cake flour; 1¾ tsp baking soda; 1½ cups [330 g] unsalted butter, room temperature; 1¾ cups [350 g] granulated sugar; 2 cups plus 3 Tbsp [505 g] buttermilk, room temperature; 1½ Tbsp vanilla extract; 2½ tsp baking powder; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 2¼ cups [450 g] granulated sugar; 1¾ tsp fine sea salt; 3 cups plus 1 Tbsp (675 g] unsalted butter, room temperature; 12 [200 g] egg yolks, room temperature; 9 [315 g] egg whites, room temperature; ¾ tsp fine sea salt

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Makes a two-layer sheet cake; Serves
12 to 24

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Zingerman’s Bakehouse Celebrate Every Day

By Amy Emberling , Lindsay-Jean Hard , Lee Vedder and Corynn Coscia

Published 2024

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If “sheet cake” calls to mind lackluster big-box store versions, rest assured that our rendition is something special. Using the highest quality of simple ingredients results in a moist, scrumptious, vanilla buttermilk cake, topped with a silky vanilla Swiss buttercream. If you’d rather ice yours with chocolate Swiss buttercream, simply double the recipe that we use for our OMG Chocolate Cupcakes. And just in case you want something a little more unusual,

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