How is it that I’ve never shared a yellow cake recipe with chocolate frosting before?? I mean it’s such a classic cake! Okay, I’ve shared lots of vanilla cakes but who doesn’t love this classic combination – light fluffy yellow cake with fudgy chocolate icing! I’ve played around with a lot of different yellow cake recipes, but I’ve always wanted to find a way to make it as light and fluffy as the mixes I grew up on, but with homemade flavors. I have finally achieved my perfect yellow cake! Vanilla Cream Sponge Cake is the obvious classic, but this is just a little more special I created a chiffon-like cake to create a fluffy yellow layer cake reminiscent to the cake mixes I grew up on, but with homemade flavors. Using a lot of whipped egg whites to get big volume and texture and for moisture, I used a combination of melted butter and vegetable oil. And the tenderness comes from the sugar and buttermilk. The trick for making the cake as yellow as possible (without using food coloring) is brown eggs. Brown egg yolks have a much deeper color, resulting in a truly yellow cake.
whip the egg whites until they form stiff peaks
Then gently fold them into the batter.
The egg whites make the cake super light, fluffy and moist – reminiscent of the yellow cake mix I grew up on.
While the outside of the cake is golden brown. For the frosting, I used a combination of, melted chocolate, butter, powdered sugar, cocoa powder and to cut down on sweetness, sour cream. This created a rich, creamy frosting that has just the right amount of sweetness.
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