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sunshine dragonfly cake

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Recipe by
Cynthia Guptill
@wyndupdragonfly
Cedar City, UT

I have developed a white and a chocolate, but not a yellow cake. And it being Fall I decided to create something with a warm flavor profile. I had watched an episode of Annika, a UK crime mystery drama. Annika had made a Scandinavian cake called a Krysdderkake. I did a little research and this is my take on the Krysdderkake. This cake also transitions well as a gluten free cake.

method Bake

Ingredients For sunshine dragonfly cake

  • HIGH ALTITUDE RECIPE
  • Two c
    sugar
  • One c
    real butter
  • 1/2 c
    oil
  • Three
    extra large eggs
  • 1/8 to 1/4 tsp
    golden yellow food coloring gel
  • Three c
    all purpose flour
  • One tsp
    baking soda
  • One tsp
    salt
  • One Tbsp
    saigon cinnamon
  • Two tsp
    cardamom
  • One c
    buttermilk
  • One c
    sour cream
  • One tsp
    vanilla extract
  • CHOCOLATE CINNAMON FROSTING
  • 1/2 c
    salted butter
  • 1/3 c
    sour cream
  • 1/2 c
    dark cocoa
  • 4 tsp
    saigon cinnamon
  • 1 tsp
    cardamom
  • 1/2 tsp
    salt
  • 1 tsp
    vanilla extract
  • Up to 1/2 c
    half and half
  • 1/4 c
    cocoa, unsweetened
  • Abt 4 1/2 c
    powdered sugar

How To Make sunshine dragonfly cake

  • 1
    Grease and flour two 9 or 10 inch pans.
  • 2
    Preheat oven to 325°.
  • 3
    Cream butter and sugar.
  • 4
    Add oil, eggs, vanilla, and food coloring gel and blend.
  • 5
    In a medium bowl stir buttermilk and sour cream till smooth.
  • 6
    In a separate bowl add flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and cardamom. Stir with a whisk, blend thoroughly.
  • 7
    Alternately add flour mixture and buttermilk sour cream mixture to sugar butter mixture.
  • 8
    Make sure to scrape sides, beater and bottom of bowl after each addition.
  • 9
    Divide batter into your greased and floured pans.
  • 10
    Bake at 325° 35 to 40 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
  • 11
    For the frosting
  • 12
    In your mixer, cream the butter. Add sour cream, vanilla, salt, cinnamon, cardamom and the dark cocoa.
  • 13
    In a separate bowl, whisk unsweetened cocoa into 2 cups of the powdered sugar. Add to the butter mixture. Mix well.
  • 14
    Alternately add the 1/2 and 1/2 and as much of the remaining powdered sugar to get a consistency for spreading.
  • 15
    When cakes are cool frost then shake cinnamon over the top of cake. Then enjoy!
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