WHITE CHOCOLATE CAKE RECIPE FROM SCRATCH RECIPES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°. Grease and flour a 10-cup fluted tube pan.
• In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Add to butter mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture, beating after each addition, just until combined. Stir in melted chocolate. Spoon batter into prepared pan.
• Bake for 1 hour 30 minutes, or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes. Remove from pan and let cool completely on a wire rack.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F Grease a 10-inch Bundt pan and sprinkle 2 tablespoons of the sugar in the Bundt pan.
• In medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda; set aside.
• Chop four squares of the white chocolate and melt the other 4. Set aside.
• In a mixing bowl, cream butter and remaining sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in extracts and the melted white chocolate. Add flour mixture to the creamed mixture alternately with the sour cream. Beat just until combined.
• Pour 1/3 of the batter into the prepared pan and sprinkle with 1/2 of the chopped white chocolate. Repeat. Pour remaining batter on top.
• Bake for 55 to 60 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted near the center comes out clean.
• Let cake cool in pan for 15 minutes then remove from pan and allow to cool on a wire rack completely.
• For White Chocolate Ganache: In a glass bowl covered with plastic wrap, heat white chocolate with cream on high (100 percent power) in microwave oven in 30-second intervals, stirring after each interval, until smooth. Let cook for about 10 minutes.
• Place cooled cake on a serving dish and frost with white chocolate ganache. Drizzle over with melted semisweet chocolate.