Easy Recipes White Christmas Cake
This Southern-inspired white Christmas cake is a show-stopping dessert for the holidays with coconut and fluffy frosting.
Servings: 12 slices
Ingredients
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 3 cups cake flour, sifted
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 5 large egg whites, at room temperature
- 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
- Frosting: 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1/3 cup water
- 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 2 egg whites
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Garnish: 1 package (14 oz) sweetened flaked coconut
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour three 9-inch round cake pans.
- Beat butter until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy.
- In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder, and salt together.
- Add dry ingredients alternately with milk to the butter mixture, beginning and ending with flour. Stir in vanilla.
- In a clean bowl, beat egg whites with cream of tartar until stiff peaks form. Gently fold into the batter.
- Divide batter evenly into prepared pans. Bake for 20–25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool layers in pans 10 minutes; remove and cool completely on wire racks.
- To make frosting, combine sugar, water, cream of tartar, salt, and egg whites in a double boiler. Beat constantly over boiling water for 7 minutes until stiff peaks form.
- Remove from heat, add vanilla, and beat 2 minutes more until thick and glossy.
- Assemble cake: Place one layer on a cake plate, spread frosting, and sprinkle with coconut. Repeat with remaining layers. Frost sides and top of cake, then cover completely with coconut.
- Chill until ready to serve.