White Cake and Buttercream Frosting

Birthday time!!

 lol Leave it to one of us to come up with this theme.

  I made 3 layers and added food color gel to make the different colored layers.

White Cake
    2 cups white sugar
    1/2 cup butter
    1/2 cup shortening
    4 eggs
    1 tablespoon and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
    1 tablespoon and 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
    1 1/4 cup milk

preheat oven to 350 degrees,  grease and flour 2 cake pans.
Whisk together flour and baking powder in a bowl. In another bowl, whip butter, shortening, and sugar until light and fluffy (long time). add eggs, one at a time, mixing well between each one. blend in vanilla. blend flour mixture into egg mixture, until well blended, blend in the milk. bake 25-30 minutes.

Buttercream Frosting 

1 cup minus 2 tablespoons salted butter 

1 cup shortening 

2-1/4 teaspoons vanilla extract 

6 cups confectioners' sugar 

1/4 cup milk 

whip butter and shortening forever until fluffy, add vanilla, keep whipping... add 1 cup sugar at a time.... add milk 1 T at a time... whip!!