Maple Cake with Whipped Icing
Maple Cake with Whipped Icing

Maple Cake with Whipped Icing

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Maple Cake with Whipped Icing
 
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This Maple Cake with Whipped Icing is the perfect simple maple snack cake for fall, topped with clouds of my favorite fluffy whipped icing!
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Serves: 9-12
Ingredients
Cake Ingredients:
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1 1/8 cups cake flour
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 egg, lightly beaten
  • 1/4 cup sour cream
  • 1/8 teaspoon almond extract
  • 1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon maple extract
Whipped Icing Ingredients:
  • 1 cup milk
  • 5 tablespoons flour
  • 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar (not powdered sugar)
  • 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
  • 1 teaspoon maple extract
  • 1 cup butter, at room temperature
  • 1/2 cup chopped pecans
  • maple syrup for drizzling
Instructions
  1. To make the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and grease an 8-inch square baking pan (I also place a greased sheet of parchment in the bottom for extra assurance.) Cover a separate baking sheet with aluminum foil and toast the pecans for 5-6 minutes, stirring occasionally, or until toasted and fragrant. Set aside to cool.
  2. In a medium saucepan over medium heat, bring the butter and water to a boil. In the meantime, in a separate large bowl, whisk together the cake flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt before whisking in the egg, sour cream, almond extract, vanilla extract. Mix to combine. While mixing, slowly pour in the boiling butter and water mixture. Mix to combine completely. Your batter will be very runny. Pour the batter into the prepared baking pan. Bake at 375 degrees for 17-22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in several places comes out with a few moist crumbs. Let the cake cool completely (I even chill mine a bit). While the cake bakes, prepare everything to start your frosting.
  3. While the cake bakes, heat the milk, flour, and granulated sugar together over medium heat, whisking constantly. Once it starts to boil, continue whisking and heating it for around 7 minutes or until it’s very thick, like cake batter consistency. Remove the mixture from the heat and add the extracts. Remove the mixture to a shallow pan and let the mixture cool completely (after a bit, I stuck mine in the fridge to hurry it along).
  4. Once the mixture and the cake are both completely cool, beat the butter in the bowl of a stand mixer until soft and fluffy. Add the completely cooled mixture and beat on high until you have fluffy frosting the consistency of stiff whipped cream (this takes several minutes, so be patient). Frost your completely cooled cake with a thick layer. Top with toasted pecans and a drizzle of maple syrup. Serve immediately.

 

2 Comments on Maple Cake with Whipped Icing

  1. Alice
    October 8, 2018 at 4:59 pm (6 years ago)

    Join/support/volunteer for your local League of Women Voters. The LWV is a non-partisan group devoted to voter education and registration. In the last year, our local league (just our small city) has registered 500 new voters, plus nearly 100 on September 23, which was National Voter Registration Day. We staff the weekly Farmers’ Market and the annual street fair. Early in the school year, we register first yer students at the three colleges in our city. We have volunteers at our train station. We work with the local high schools to register students in the spring. Democracy is not a spectator sport. Get involved!

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  2. Joanna
    October 11, 2018 at 9:53 am (6 years ago)

    Looks like another winner recipe, Julie! Thanks for encouraging everybody to use their voice 🙂

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