This buttery comfortable snickerdoodle cake is swirled with cinnamon sugar and topped with a brown sugar cinnamon cream cheese frosting. I adorn mine semi-naked model with mini snickerdoodle cookies on high! Recipe features a how-to video!
A Enjoyable Fall Birthday Cake: Snickerdoodle Cake
Spice cake at all times makes a comfy fall birthday cake, however if you need one thing a bit of lighter and extra whimsical, do this snickerdoodle cake!
Why you’ll adore this cake:
- Primarily based on my well-loved yellow cake recipe, however made with the reverse creaming technique for a melt-in-your mouth crumb.
- Fairly cinnamon sugar ripple provides snickerdoodle taste with out being overwhelming.
- The straightforward brown sugar cinnamon cream cheese frosting has that quintessential snickerdoodle tang, AND isn’t too candy.
- Lovable mini snickerdoodle cookie ornament: these are completely non-compulsory however a lot enjoyable! To make them, merely put together a half batch of my snickerdoodle recipe (I exploit an entire egg) and use ¾-1 teaspoon of dough per cookie.
Whereas I do embody directions for making this recipe in a 9×13 pan, I encourage you to strive your hand at snickerdoodle cake in layer cake kind! My video beneath will stroll you thru all of the steps, and you may at all times take a look at my submit on how you can adorn a cake in the event you want extra pointers.
What You Want
This snickerdoodle cake recipe makes use of simply 12 substances for each the cake and the frosting! Let’s go over a couple of of them earlier than we begin baking.
- Cake flour. Cake flour is my choice, however you’ll be able to substitute all-purpose if that’s all you’ve gotten readily available. In case you do, you’ll need 3 cups or 375g.
- Butter and oil. My recipe makes use of a mix of oil and butter to make a snickerdoodle cake that’s tremendous comfortable and moist. The oil can even forestall the cake from drying out within the fridge. My most popular oil these days has been avocado oil, however you might additionally use vegetable or canola oil.
- Baking powder. Sure, you’ll need a full tablespoon of baking powder! This isn’t a typo.
- Buttermilk. This provides a delicate tang and a few moisture as effectively. Be sure that your buttermilk and your eggs are each at room temperature earlier than including them to the batter.
- Cream cheese. Be sure that to make use of block model, full fats cream cheese. Low fats or spreadable cream cheese may make your frosting too runny.
You would possibly discover this snickerdoodle cake is lacking a basic cookie ingredient: cream of tartar! I speak extra about this selection within the FAQ part beneath.
SAM’S TIP: Use all room temperature substances for the cake batter. It will make combining the substances a lot simpler and can yield a extra clean, velvety cake batter.
Keep in mind, that is simply an outline of the substances I used and why. For the complete recipe please scroll right down to the underside of the submit!
Find out how to Make Snickerdoodle Cake
Reverse Creaming Technique
I first launched this technique with my caramel cake, and since then, I’ve been just a bit obsessive about it! Not solely does it yield a stunning, plush cake texture, but it surely additionally safeguards towards over-mixing. It’s almost not possible to over-mix a cake when utilizing the reverse creaming technique!
- Whisk collectively the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt, then add a tablespoon of butter and blend on low velocity till integrated.
- Proceed including the remaining butter, working one tablespoon at a time and ready till every tablespoon is totally integrated earlier than including the following. If you’re completed, the combination could have a sandy texture.
- Stir within the oil together with your mixer on low velocity till all the pieces is moistened.
- Mix the buttermilk, eggs, and vanilla in a separate bowl, then progressively add this to the dry substances together with your mixer on low velocity. Be sure that to pause to scrape the perimeters and backside of the bowl.
Cinnamon Sugar Swirl + Frosting
- Divide the cake batter greased, floured, and parchment lined pans, then sprinkle a heaping tablespoon of cinnamon sugar over every pan. Use a knife to swirl the cinnamon sugar into the batter.
- Bake the truffles at 350F for 28-Half-hour or till a toothpick inserted within the heart comes out clear or with a couple of moist crumbs. Don’t over-bake! Invert the truffles onto cooling racks after quarter-hour and let cool fully earlier than frosting.
- Make the frosting – Beat the cream cheese, butter, and brown sugar till clean and creamy, then add the cinnamon, vanilla, and salt. Regularly add the powdered sugar and blend till clean.
- Degree your truffles if wanted, then stack and frost as desired. I don’t use a lot frosting between the layers as a result of I love to do ornamental swirls on high, which provides lots of frosting. I exploit the Ateco 846 tip for the swirls.
SAM’S TIP: Don’t stress an excessive amount of about your cinnamon sugar swirl; it doesn’t should be good! Simply do your finest to work it into the cake batter (not an excessive amount of although–we don’t need to lose the swirl!). Even when it doesn’t end up precisely the way you hoped, it would nonetheless style wonderful!
Ceaselessly Requested Questions
You should use this frosting for easy decorations (like I did within the images above), however if you wish to do extra intricate piping like you’ll be able to with my conventional cream cheese frosting, you’ll need so as to add extra sugar. You will want about one further cup of powdered sugar to get this to a sturdy, pipeable consistency.
Whereas I initially tried many variations of this snickerdoodle cake with cream of tartar (making an attempt to emulate the substances of a basic snickerdoodle), in the end it didn’t make the perfect cake base. As a substitute, we’ll add some buttermilk, which makes the cake appropriately tangy and tremendous moist too! That is additionally why I exploit cream cheese within the frosting; it emulates that basic snickerdoodle tang with out being overwhelmingly cream tacky!
You may, however since this snickerdoodle cake recipe is absolutely designed to be eaten with a fork, I’d advocate you strive my snickerdoodle cupcakes as an alternative. That recipe makes use of a special method (conventional creaming technique) for sturdier, completely handheld outcomes.
If you’re a fan of snickerdoodle cookies, please do this snickerdoodle cake and let me know what you suppose!
Get pleasure from!
Let’s bake collectively! I’ll be strolling you thru all of the steps in my written recipe and video beneath! In case you do this recipe, remember to tag me on Instagram, and you can even discover me on YouTube and Fb
Snickerdoodle Cake
Servings: 12 servings
Energy: 719kcal
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Directions
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Preheat oven to 350F (175C). Frivolously grease and flour the perimeters and bottoms of three 8” spherical baking pans. Put aside.
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In a big bowl (or the bowl of a stand mixer) whisk collectively flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt till well-combined.
3 ⅓ cups (375 g) cake flour, 2 cups (400 g) granulated sugar, 1 Tablespoon baking powder, ¾ teaspoon salt
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Utilizing an electrical mixer on low velocity, add butter one tablespoon at a time. Don’t add the following tablespoon till the primary has been totally integrated. Combination ought to resemble sandy, coarse crumbs.
½ cup (113 g) unsalted butter
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Add the oil and stir on low-speed till the entire dry substances have been moistened.
½ cup (118 ml) impartial cooking oil
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In a separate bowl (I exploit a big measuring cup) whisk collectively buttermilk, eggs, and vanilla extract till effectively mixed.
1 ⅓ cup buttermilk, 3 giant eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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With mixer on low-speed, progressively pour milk combination into flour combination. As soon as mixed, scrape down the perimeters and backside of the bowl utilizing a spatula. Stir as soon as extra till batter is uniform and clean.
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Evenly divide cake batter into ready pans and put together cinnamon swirl.
Cinnamon Swirl
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In a small bowl, whisk collectively sugar and cinnamon for cake swirl
3 Tablespoons granulated sugar, 2 ½ teaspoons floor cinnamon
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Sprinkle a heaping Tablespoon of cinnamon/sugar over every cake layer. Use a butter knife to swirl the combination into the cake batter..
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Switch truffles to heart rack of 350F (175C) oven and bake for 28-Half-hour or till a toothpick inserted within the heart comes out clear or with a couple of moist crumbs.
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Permit truffles to chill for quarter-hour after which invert onto a cooling rack to chill fully earlier than frosting.
Frosting
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In a big mixing bowl, mix cream cheese, butter, and brown sugar and use an electrical mixer to beat till clean and creamy.
8 oz (226 g) cream cheese, ½ cup (113 g) unsalted butter, ¼ cup (50 g) gentle brown sugar
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Add floor cinnamon, vanilla extract and salt, stir till mixed.
1 teaspoon floor cinnamon, ½ teaspoon vanilla extract, ⅛ teaspoon salt
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With mixer on low velocity, progressively add powdered sugar till frosting is clean and creamy.
3 cups (375 g) powdered sugar
Meeting
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If truffles are domed or unlevel, degree truffles earlier than meeting. I do skinny layers of frosting between cake layers, a semi-naked frosting across the cake, after which ornamental swirls on high utilizing an Ateco 846 or 848 tip.
Notes
All objective flour
You might substitute 3 cups/375 grams of all objective flour for the cake flour referred to as for within the recipe.
Baking in numerous cake pans
9” cake pans: bake for barely much less time, checking at 22-23 minutes.
Utilizing solely two 8” or 9” pans: Desserts will want roughly 30-35 minutes in 8” pans or roughly 25 minutes in 9” pans. (Observe that pans have to be deep sufficient – about 2”, don’t fill pans greater than ¾ full).
13×9 pan: Approximate bake time will likely be Half-hour.
Storing
Retailer in an hermetic container at room temperature for as much as 24 hours or within the fridge for as much as 5 days.
Vitamin
Serving: 1serving | Energy: 719kcal | Carbohydrates: 99g | Protein: 8g | Fats: 34g | Saturated Fats: 15g | Polyunsaturated Fats: 4g | Monounsaturated Fats: 12g | Trans Fats: 1g | Ldl cholesterol: 104mg | Sodium: 357mg | Potassium: 126mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 72g | Vitamin A: 832IU | Vitamin C: 0.02mg | Calcium: 149mg | Iron: 1mg
Dietary data is predicated on third-party calculations and needs to be thought-about an estimate solely. Precise dietary content material will differ primarily based upon manufacturers used, measuring strategies, cooking technique, portion sizes, and extra.
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