VANILLA CREAM CHEESE CAKE RECIPES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Beat sugar and butter at medium speed with a heavy-duty stand mixer until fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes. Gradually add egg whites, one-third at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Sift together cake flour, baking powder, and salt; gradually add to butter mixture alternately with water, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Stir in vanilla extract. Pour batter into 3 greased (with shortening) and floured 9-inch round cake pans.
• Bake in preheated oven until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, 19 to 21 minutes. Cool in pans on wire racks 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks, and cool completely, about 30 minutes.
• Beat cream cheese and salted butter with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Gradually add powdered sugar, whole milk, vanilla extract, and salt, and beat until smooth. Increase speed to medium-high, and beat until light and fluffy.
• Spread Cream Cheese Buttercream between layers and on top and sides of cake. To Pipe Frosting Petals: Spoon the frosting into a piping bag fitted with a 1/2-inch round tip. Pipe a column of 5 (1-inch) dots of frosting down the side of the frosted cake. (The dots should touch.) Place a 1-inch-wide spatula on the center of the first dot. Drag frosting outward, making a petal-like shape. Repeat with remaining 4 dots, wiping spatula clean after each use. Pipe a second column of dots on top of the swiped edges, and drag the frosting outward. Repeat, covering the entire cake, ending with 1 column of dots.
• Top the cake with Cake Ball Ornaments.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (160 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.
• Beat butter and cream cheese together with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth. Beat sugar into butter mixture until light and fluffy. The mixture should be noticeably lighter in color. Add the eggs two at a time, allowing each pair of eggs to blend into the butter mixture before adding the next. Beat in vanilla and almond extracts with the last eggs. Pour the flour and nutmeg into the bowl and beat until just incorporated. Pour the batter into the prepared tube pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 80 minutes. Check for doneness after 1 hour. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.