Average Rating: 0TOTAL TIME: Prep: 1 hour Bake: 40 min. + cooling
YIELD: about 50 servings.Ingredients
- 2-1/4 cups butter, softened
- 12 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 4-1/2 cups sugar
- 12 large eggs, room temperature
- 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 4-1/2 cups cake flour
FROSTING: - 1-1/2 cups butter, softened
- 8 cups confectioners' sugar
- 3 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 8 to 10 tablespoons whole milk
- 1 cup seedless raspberry jam
- 1 package (24 ounces) ready-to-use rolled blue fondant
- 1 package (24 ounces) ready-to-use rolled green fondant
- Red gel food coloring
Instructions
- 1. Preheat oven to 325°. Line two 13x9-in. baking pans with parchment; grease paper.
- 2. In a large bowl, beat butter, cream cheese and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat vanilla. Add flour; mix well. Transfer to prepared pans. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 40-45 minutes. Cool completely on a wire rack; remove paper.
- 3.
For frosting: In a large bowl, beat butter until light and fluffy. Beat in confectioners' sugar and vanilla. Add enough milk to achieve desired consistency. - 4. Using a serrated knife, level tops of cakes if necessary. Place 1 cake layer on a cake board. Frost top with frosting; spread raspberry jam to within 1/2 in. of edges. Top with remaining layer. Frost top and sides of cake with remaining frosting, reserving 1 cup frosting for decoration.
- 5.
For fondant argyle: On a work surface dusted with confectioners' sugar, roll out green fondant into an 1/8-in.-thick rectangle. Using a 4-in. diamond cutter, cut out 10 diamonds. Repeat with blue fondant. Place fondant diamonds in alternating colors on the top and sides of cake, cutting in half to fit the ends. - 6. Color reserved frosting red with gel food coloring and place in a piping bag fitted with a #2 piping tip. Pipe dashed lines diagonally across the fondant diamonds to create an argyle pattern.
Nutrition Facts
1 piece: 426 calories, 18g fat (11g saturated fat), 88mg cholesterol, 150mg sodium, 63g carbohydrate (53g sugars, 0 fiber), 3g protein.