Vanilla & Strawberry Birthday Cake for R
Vanilla Strawberry "Olympic" birthday cak e This year, R* wasn't sure what he wanted to do for his birthday but he knew he wanted it to involve ice cream cake. However at the last minute, we had a family emergency and had to spend his birthday weekend out of town. Since ice cream doesn't travel well, I decided to make him a small birthday cake. He requested a vanilla cake, and I suggested we complement it with strawberry frosting since that's his second favorite flavor. A Vanilla and Strawberry Cake was in order! Looking for recipes for small-batch vanilla cakes I came across this one from Butternut Bakery. I'm a fan of their Instagram page where everything always looks delicious, and the recipe got good reviews. I also liked that it was only a 2-layer cake, so that I'd have to make less frosting when I put it together. The cakes baked up in 25 minutes, it seems my oven is now running too hot, whereas before it wasn't heating up enough! My oven t...