Vintage Cake
This Vintage Cake combines two layers of white cake, with a surprise brownie layer soaked in a decadent chocolate sauce. And the cream cheese frosting takes it right over the top!
Despite taking all of Wilton’s cake decorating classes, my frosting piping skills still leave a lot to be desired. Cake decorating…I’m not so good at. Cake eating…well, at that, I’m a pro.;-)
Recently, I got the opportunity to get my cake-happy hands on Amanda’s (of I am Baker and the originator of the rose cake) new book, Surprise Inside Cakes. Based on the cover alone, I knew Amanda’s book would not disappoint – and it certainly didn’t.
Each cake is not only beautiful on the outside, but also contains a “surprise” when you slice into them. From rainbow cakes to ombre cakes to a candle shape baked inside a Jack O’Lantern cake, Amanda expertly shows you step-by-step how to recreate these gorgeous cakes at home. She even makes it look easy!
As much as I wanted to start with a more complex cake, I decided to start with a cake I can handle, and work my way up…I’m hoping by Doodle’s birthday in July I can give something like this a try:
Amazing, right??
But for today’s post, I’m sharing this Vintage Cake…primarily because I knew I could handle swirling the cream cheese frosting on the top. Oh, and also because the decadent layers inside really appealed to my taste buds.
The surprise inside this particular cake? Sitting below two layers of the fluffiest, most-fabulous white cake I’ve ever tasted, was a layer of decadent brownies…which were layered with a slathering of chocolate sauce.
I’m not lying when I tell you eating a slice of this cake had me drooling as much as watching Adam Levine perform shirtless. 😉
Plus, it was super-duper easy to make! I used Amanda’s white cake recipe – which I highly recommend: it was without a doubt, the best white cake I’ve ever eaten. I also used her recipe for Decadent Brownies, and yes, they were truly decadent and perfect. The coolest part about using Amanda’s white cake recipe is that she specifically designed the cakes to bake level, stable, and sturdy – making them much easier to frost. For a novice cake decorator like me, this was a must. 😉
However, I love that Amanda also notes that you can substitute your favorite box mixes for both the cake and the brownies. You can still have an amazing surprise inside cake, without quite as much work. If you’re a beginning baker, this is a great way to get started with some of her amazing creations and wow your friends and family.
- Amanda's white cake recipe OR 1 box white cake mix
- Amanda's Decadent Brownies OR 1 box brownie mix
- 2 squares (2 ounces) semisweet chocolate, finely chopped
- 7 ounces sweetened condensed milk (half of a 14-ounce can)
- 1 8-ounce package cream cheese, room temperature
- ½ cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 cups confectioner's sugar
- ¼ cup milk
- Prepare white cake as directed on the box, and pour into two 9-inch round cake pans. Allow cakes to cool to room temperature.
- Prepare brownies as directed, baking in a 9-inch round cake pan.
- To make the chocolate sauce, place the chocolate, sweetened condensed milk and 1 tablespoon water in a small saucepan and cook over low heat, stirring until the chocolate is melted (about 5 minutes).
- While the brownies are still warm, place the brownie layer on a cake stand. Slowly pour the chocolate sauce on top, letting it soak into the brownie. Allow the sauce to soak in for at least 30 minutes. Meanwhile, make the cream cheese frosting (see below).
- Place a white cake layer on top of the brownies and top with approximately ¼ cup of the frosting using an offset spatula.
- Add the second white cake layer and cover the cake in a layer of cream cheese frosting. Since I'm not a pro at decorating, I used Amanda's tip and just swooped my spatula through the frosting in a "C" shape.
- Chill the cake until ready to serve.
- Combine the cream cheese, butter and vanilla in a stand mixer and mix on medium speed until incorporated, about 1 or 2 minutes. Add the confectioner's sugar 1 cup at a time, until the frosting is light and creamy. For thicker/stiffer frosting, add more confectioner's sugar ¼ cup at a time. If the frosting is too stiff, add milk 1 tablespoon at a time.
And guess what? Amanda has graciously offered one of my readers the chance to win one of her cookbooks – trust me, this is one you want sitting on your shelves!
How to enter:
Enter via the Rafflecopter form below. Sometimes the form takes a few minutes to load. You will need to login to the Rafflecopter form using your email address. Be sure to use an email address you check often, as that is how you will be notified if you win.
Fine Print:
You must be 18 years or older to enter. Giveaway runs through March 31, 2014. Winner will be notified via email within 48 hours of the end of the giveaway and has 48 hours to respond to said email or a new winner will be chosen.
Can’t wait?? You can find your own copy of Surprise Inside Cakes anywhere books are sold or you can order it on Amazon
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This cake looks delicious. I can’t wait to try it.
The cake was meh, my husband says it tastes like cornbread. We both didn’t like the cream cheese frosting. The brownie part was good, but it did not soak up any of the sauce, so now my fridge is covered in the chocolate sauce that leaked out =/ This really wasn’t worth the hassle. We might try making the brownies again, though, but without the sauce.
I agree. The brownie layer did not absorb the chocolate sauce. i have not put the other layers on yet , but really worried about the chocolate.
I WOULD POKE HOLES IN THE BROWNIE LAYER WITH A LARGE FORK, THEN POUR THE CHOCOLATE SAUCE ON A LITTLE AT THE TIME….WHATEVER DOESN ABSORB, DISCARD. i ALMOST THINK IT WOULD BE BETTER TO MAKE A LAYER OF CHOCOLATE CAKE VS THE BROWNIES FOR THE BOTTOM LAYER.
You make it bettee?
The cake looks and sounds delicious. However, at my age I am not buying more cookbooks. It would have been nice had you included the actual Amanda recipes that you used since that is what you used and promoted.
Mary, I linked to the recipes she used. You can find them on her site by following the links.
That cake looks and sounds amazing.
Thanks for sharing the recipe and for the chance to win!
I love red velvet – but this cake has me drooling, I want it NOW!!~
Vanilla or strawberry
Favorite Flavor? Chocolate!
Tough call but I’ll go with white almond sour cream.
This cake is making me hungry at midnight. It’s stunning!! I love a classic white vanilla cake and why Amanda’s white cake is teh first thing on my list on this book.
The cake looks amazing!
I love white cake! But I have to admit, lately I’ve been craving chocolate!
I love German chocolate cake.
All of my favorite things in one dessert! Yum!!!
So looking forward to trying this cake! Yum!!
Italian Cream is my favorite!!!!
Chocolate
I love lavender cake with agave icing…yum!
love all your vintage cake recipes
Chocolate!
German Chocolate
I love anything chocolate!!
Wow!! That looks soo YUMMY!!
I love, Love , LOVE Red Velvet!
I live all flavors of cake. However, if I had to pick just one flavor as a favorite, it would be German Chocolate Cake.
I love chocolate cake but I’ll eat any flavor!!
Gorgeous vintage cake!
My favorite flavor would have to be double chocolate stout. mmmmm mmm
My favorite is Red Velvet but I love anything with Chocolate and this cake looks delicious!!
This cake looks so good! I was thinking of adding some strawberries to the Cream Cheese Frosting…Then you’d have a Neapolitan Cake!
Looks so amazing I think this could be the first cake I make in my new breville scraper mixer pro! Excited
Chocolate is my favorite flavor of cake.
Can’t wait to try this cake!
Love to make my friends and family special cakes for different special occasions. I would love to have this book so I can make even better cakes for them. Thank you.
White cake with fresh strawberries in the middle & either cream cheese or vanilla buttercream frosting!
That looks so delish! I believe I’ll be making that for my Mother’s birthday in April!
This looks amazing! I will try this in a few days!
This looks amazeballs!
Is Amanda’s recipe a cake box mix or have I read the recipe wrong?
I don’t use box mixes so would love the recipe!
preacher cake is one of my favorites
This cake not only looks delishious, but so impressive! Best of each world; taste, looks, and easy to make. Thank you! THANK YOU!
I like chocolate cake
looks yummy
This cake looks amazing and sounds yummy. Thank you for sharing.
I really like almond.
Chocolate cake with fluffy white frosting
Thank you for sharing!! A very decadent looking and sounding cake!
Strawberry Cake with Strawberry Frosting!!!
My favorite flavor in cakes is chocolate with butterscotch icing..
I love a good deep dark chocolate cake. Thanks so much for this amazing give away!!
I adore yellow cake with chocolate frosting as an everyday cake, but I made Smitten Kitchen’s smores cake for my birthday last year, and it was TO DIE FOR. So good!
It’s so hard to pick a favorite! But I’d have to say carrot cake!
I found your blog from Amanda’s facebook! I love everything that she does and would LOVE a copy of her book. I have yet to make anything that she has shared and not have it turn out fabulous!! I need to try this cream cheese frosting recipe!
That cake looks so so so good!
I love this cake! So pretty! Can’t wait to try! And I’m dying to get a copy of Amanda’s book!!
Pin this one, so I will have it on file to make for the next Birthday. thanks Ashley!
Beautiful!
My favorite is chocolate cake.
Recently made a chocolate pumpkin cake with brown sugar glaze!!
I guess my favorite is chocolate.
I love lemon cake! 🙂
Normal ingredients, but totally impressive! I look forward to trying it.
This looks amazing! Can’t wait to try this 🙂
This looks amazing!! Can’t wait to try itz!! :0)
Favorite cake flavor: Strawberry Lime
It’s hard because I love all cakes, but nothing compares to a moist chocolate cake.
Chocolate!!!
That looks better than a boxed cake mix! Must try more recipes!
Love chocolate cake!!!
I think I’ll have to buy this book, because I really want to bake this, but not with a mix!
Ohhhh, I’ve wanted this book ever since I saw it for preorder on Amazon. The cake looks divine!
Sorry, I forgot! Vanilla is my favorite!
This cake actually looks amazing and I LOVE chocolate anything!
Vanilla!
I LOVE any kind that has chocolate or anything chocolate on it!!!
I love love love this idea. It is so pretty, dainty, and chic! Great Job! And knowing i am baker’s cakes, it was more than amazing!
Red velvet and Vanilla Almond cake!!
Love it!!!
That looks so, so yummy! MMMmmmmm!
I love the idea for this cake! A brownie base – genius and oh-so-yummy! Though I might try a ganache frosting since I don’t like cream cheese frosting.
My favorite flavor – rich, dark chocolate!
Favorite cake flavor would be vanilla!
Love this cake, I am going to try the recipe today!
My favorite flavor of cake is lemon!
Lovely, beautiful, mouth-watering cake! Love everything about it.
I love cake in general but Vanilla or Almond would be my favorites! I think I will try this recipe this weekend!
I’ve yet to find a cake I don’t like but if I really, really had to choose, I’d narrow it down to a Vanilla, Chocolate and Carrot Cakes…so difficult!
Red Velvet is my favorite but I will NEVER turn down cake of any flavor.
I can’t ever decide what kind is my favorite. Lately, I’m enjoying a nice strawberry cake (made without Jello).
My favorite is an almond bourbon flavored.
Looks super yummy! You did a great job on the frosting . I have not met a cake a I didn’t not like thus far, as long long as it’s moist and fluffy there’s not much not too like . Would sure love to win the book .
Love chocolate cake !!!!!! I find Amanda’s cakes fascinating .
This sounds absolutely amazing. I can’t wait to try it.
Deep, dark, delicious chocolate is my favorite flavor.
You inspire me to become a better baker, and wow…
looking at your cakes i feel am in love again, they are gorgeous.:* thank you for all the recipes you share…
White cake…almond buttercream … no cream cheese
Love…Love..Love it!!! <3
All I can say is YUM!!
I am always good for an excellent red velvet cake 😀
I love chocolate cake! Can you post the recipe that is from scratch instead of box mix?
I love chocolate! You have great recipes.
Pedant butter with chocolate chips
It is hard for me to pinpoint one favorite … I LOVE carrot cake and coconut cake … I also love chocolate cakes … German, Black Forest and strawberry and chocolate
I am making this for my birthday cake!! so far so good! yum!!
Did you make this cake, Helen? If so, how did it turn out?
Thanks!
My favorite flavor is any flavor that is covered with cream cheese frosting!!!
carrot cake…a recent favorite as i never liked it as a kid
I love chocolate cake!
Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate. But I like vanilla almost as much. Would love to win such a creative baking book.
Very nice surprise using the brownie base for this cake.
I love lots of different cakes but you can never go wrong with chocolate.
Can’t wait to try this, looks so good !! cake meets brownie : )
I love white wedding cake!
Chocolate!!
White Almond Sour Cream!! Simply Devine ♥♥♥
I love this website. Look forward to many more recipes.
This looks amazing! Can’t wait to try it!
This cake looks so delicious and light and fluffy! I have never made a white cake before… Definitely interested in trying one!
This looks amazing! My favorite kind is chocolate, but I’m also a huge fan of red velvet…or cake… yeah. Cake in general is my favorite flavor!
My favorite cake is German Chocolate.
I like all kinds of cakes
my fave cake is choc but this is a must try!
YUMMY!! I’d love to win. ♥
Your cake decorating skills are JUST. FINE. Ashley! This is beautiful – and looks delicious too! (And I’d be saying that even if I wasn’t entering your giveaway!)
Your cake is beautiful and looks gorgeous, too. I love vintage (wrote a vintage fiction novel). I love baking and tea parties and this cake would be lovely. I love the way your swirled the cream cheese frosting. I like it much better than the fancy Wilton tips. I might add sugared flowers. Have you ever done those. They’re easy, edible and look like crystallized flowers.
Thanks for the recipe and inspiration!
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this looks so delicious! always loved vanilla flavour!
My favorite cake is orange.
Great looking cake!
That cake looks absolutely DIVINE! I have been searching for the perfect scratch white cake recipe forever – I will have to find Amanda’s recipe and give it a try!
Looks amazing! YUM!
This cake looks so good! Tie for favorites – German Chocolate and Italian Cream!
I love anything chocolate!
Love chocolate, lemon, vanilla, carrot cake…not much I DON’T like! Your recipes look amazing!
My favorite flavor of cake Buttery Vanilla. Yum! Can’t wait to try this cake. Looks amazing.
So hard to pick just one – probably red velvet or carrot cake (or maybe I just love cream cheese frosting!).
Can’t wait to surprise my daughters with a new cake recipe. We love eating our new found creations.
that is gorgeous
german chocolate cake
My favorite is chocolate.
I make a Butter Yellow Cake, split the layers, the 1rst and 3rd filled with a cheesecake “fluff”. The center Layer is filled with a wonderful Lemon Curd, smooth and tartly-sweet. Top with last 2 layers, cheese cake in the center remember, and finish off with a scrumptious Buttercream Frosting laced with Pure Almond Extract and Lemon rind, finely grated and chopped. Fabulous Holiday Cake!!! …and Easter’s coming, Ladies!!
Favorite cake flavor is dark chocolate with cream cheese icing!! Would love to win the book!
white almond
Wow your cake looks so yummy!! My favorite cake is cheese cake. Thank you so much for sharing!
I’m going to try a chocolate rose swirl cake for my birthday on tuesday!
That’s a really hard one, I love a good cheesecake (homemade of course!) but for a typical cake cake I think I’d have to say a chocolate buttercream cake with a whipped cream frosting. Mmmmm!
Yum!
Love red velvet with cream cheese icing
Chocolate/ strawberry marble cake with cream cheese or whipped frosting is fun snd yummy when put in my tummy
Oh I love Carrot Cake!!
White cake with white buttercream frosting is my favorite–but I really never met a cake I didn’t like! 🙂 The Vintage Cake looks delicious!
Chocolate! But this cake looks lovely!
White Cake with Chocolate Icing
I will so try this but using homemade cake and brownie recipes. Favorite cake is red velvet
Any cake!!!!!! Just as long as it is yummy!!!!!
German Chocolate cake is my absolute favorite, and I love Angel Food cake. Actually, there are very few cakes I don’t like!
Hard to pick just one…..chocolate. Red velvet any cake you put in front of me !!!!!!
Love baking! My fav is Italian Cream Cake! Second fav is Milky Way Cake!
Looove a big double layer that is bottom layer white cake top layer is chocolate fudge cake with a chocolate fudge frosting . So good with vanilla ice cream
Chocolate mud cake is my favourite but I cant wait to try this one.
The cake looks fabulous! My birthday is soon, and I try to make a unique cake. This fits the bill.
I’m a vanilla kinda girl! This looks great….
I am a chocoholic. I love a nice rich chocolate cake.
Chocolate!!
I love cake. My favorite changes to my mood; however one of my favs is a lemon cake with amazing lemon coconut frosting.
Chocolate with cream cheese icing!
I LOVE chocolate cake — especially warm and fresh from the oven with a glass of cold milk 😉
I love baking so you know I am going to try this one!
My ultimate fav is German Chocolate!
I love this cake! It is beautiful!
My favorite is lemon with raspberry jam, but I always love a good rich and moist chocolate cake
I LOVE strawberry cake. Especially with a scoop of strawberry ice cream. 🙂
Love coconut cake
Looks amazing.
This Vintage cake looks so delicious and I want to make this cake for my moms birthday!!!!!
This cake looks so good! My favorite cake is CHOCOLATE!!!
I can hardly wait to bake this beautiful cake. Takes me back to when my grandma would let me help her bake
This is a great idea — love the brownie layer hidden in the bottom.
This sounds Awesome. A delicious cake on top of brownies sounds GREAT. I’ll definitely try this. Thanks for your great ideas. Love this site. Have a Blessed day.
My favorite cake is also “vintage” as it’s my grandmothers Carrot Cake recipe with homemade cream cheese frosting! YUM!
My favorite cake in the world so far, is cheesecake!
My favorite flavor is lemon cake with cream cheese frosting.
I can’t wait to make this.
Red Velvet
Delish
My favorite flavor of cake is chocolate! Thanks so much for sharing the recipe and for offering this giveaway!
Chocolate is my favorite!
Italian Cream Cake
Chocolate cake with chocolate truffle any day
Va va vanilla, all the way!!! 🙂
Vanilla!
White cake
I love vanilla! I can’t wait to try this recipe for an upcoming family event!
A simple white cake with chocolate icing.
german chocolate!
This looks delicious. I’m thinking it would make nice wedding cake idea too.
Would love to make this , but would like to try Amanda’s cake recipe. Can you post it please?
White cake is my favorite. Love the idea with the chocolate bottom. I have my daughter’s 16th birthday coming up, and this is the cake I’m going to make.
My favorite is chocolate.
Red Velvet
I think I would have to say lemon is my favorite cake flavor.
What an interesting take on a white cake, I would never have thought of the brownie bottom! Looks divine.
I love chocolate cake, but dont pass up any cake though!
Italian Cream Cake & Banana Chocolate Chips Cake
Chocolate
love the recipes, thanks for posting!!
LOOKS SO GOOOOOD,I CAN’T WAIT TO TRY IT.THANKS SO MUCH.:)
Italian Cream Cake is my favorite!!!
I like chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting
Looks DIVINE !!!!
Carrot cake is my favorite but cream cheese frosting will get me everytime!
I love marble cakes – 2 flavors in one:)
Chocolate, but this white cake looks luscious!
White almond cake with creamy melt in your mouth white icing. Well i have to go bake now.
I went out to bought this cake ingredients , this is my Easter dinner cake.
This will be an awesome cake for Easter, along with my lemon coconut cake.
Amazing!!!!!
I would dearly love to get a copy of your cake cookbook. I am disabled due to MS and don’t have energy into really intricate cakes, but think I could manage at least some of these. Thanks.
My favorite is white cake, so this recipe looks wonderful!!
Yum!! My fave cake is chocolate with penuche icing.
Luscious vanilla with chocolate frosting
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YUM!!!
My favorite cake is a toss up between red velvet with cream cheese frosting or chocolate cake with peanut butter buttercream!
What a stunning sight when the first piece is plated. I recently became “addicted” to Lemon Polenta cake.
Looks totally divine! Will definitely have to try this!
Oh … favorite flavor of cake: chocolate!
This cake looks absolutely delicious!:)
Coconut
tHIS CAKE LOOKS AMAZING!!!
COCA COLA CAKE!!
Hermoso, wonderful!
Looks amazing!! love your blog
this looks so yummy it should be called ” Once on the lips , forever on the hips” cake lol love it yum yum
My favorite cake is Black Magic *drools*
Normally its chocolate but oh man my sister made this cake for our family dinner tonight and I loved it!!!
my favorite is pineapple. That is a beautiful white cake, can’t wait to try the recipe.
I am making this as soon as Lent is over. Maybe for Easter!
I absolutely adore white cake and I am going to be making this one!!!
I love red velvet cake w/ cream cheese frosting
Carrot cake is my favorite!
Looks delicious! I especially love vanilla cake.
White Cake
Waldorf red cake!
I love a rich chocolate cake or a lemon cake. Okay I love pretty much all the cakes. How do I find Amanda’s white cake recipe?
Sorry for the dumb question! In the book of course 🙂
I’m a bit of a purist: Chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream.
I am all about a good slice of chocolate cake but really as long as it’s cake I’m probably going to love it.
Where is the recipe for the homemade white cake you were speaking of? I prefer homemade to box mixes. I would love to have a good recipe for white cakes as most recipes tend to come out dry…and I have tried many in my 55 years of baking!
Any flavor! I just love anything sweet!!! This cake sounds wonderful!
I love Red Velvet Cake but I can’t wait to try this!!!
This looks simply amazing…..I can’t wait to try…
I love the Surprise Inside Cakes!
I love the white cake with the cream cheese frosting…YUMMY!
RED VELVET!!!
German chocolate is my favorite……but I love CAKE!
Vanilla or coconut. I am gonna definitely try this cake. My mom’s b/d is coming up soon. This would be fantastic.
My favorite flavor of cake is cake! I love all cakes!!
WOW! Looks amazing… Cant wait to try this weekend.
This cake is so pretty. I gotta try it!
It’s got to be chocolate!!
Cake is my favourite
any flavour
I love a good chocolate cake with 7 minute frosting
My favorite cake is a toss up between the German Chocolate cake my Mom and Dad use to make with vanilla icing,my Aunt’s spice cake she used to make for family gatherings, or the white Wedding cake used to be served at Weddings, and the white cake cream filled cup cakes we use to buy from the Barton’s Bakery at the New Eastern Farmer’s Market and their chocolate-white dough marble cakes .are my favorites.
I love yellow cake with choc icing
White
Chocolate Cake is my Fav!
I love Chocolate Cake..
I LOVE a good Coconut Cake!!!
Lemon or chocolate!!
Chocolate with chocolate frosting and cherry pie filling is my fave, but this one is calling my name!
white cake with vanilla butter cream frosting is my favorite and red velvet with cream cheese frosting is a close second.
I love vanilla almond flavored cake with buttercream icing. So yummy.
I love vanilla cake with buttercream!
This looks so good!! Definitely trying this!!! Chocolate cake with peanut butter mousse is one of my favs!!!
I love chocolate fudge and red velvet!
I love carrot cake… With cream cheese frosting of course!
I can’t say that I actual have a favorite. Anything sweet is wonderful. If I HAD to come up with a favorite, it would probably be chocolate with raspberry curd filling and milk chocolate Swiss Meringue Buttercream. Although champagne cake/orange curd/and champagne buttercream is a very close second.
German Chocolate Cake
I love any type of cake, really, I LOVE all cakes! However, my go to cake right now is a chocolate with raspberry buttercream filling and vanilla buttercream icing.
Wow, I am impressed with the ideas that are shown in the cookbook, would be fun to win.
That cake looks delicious. I’d say my favorite has always been German chocolate, but the strawberry cake I made for my daughter’s birthday last year was so good, it may have taken first place.
I LOVE chocolate fudge cake, or the starlight cake from Betty Crocker’s cook book. That’s why I am excited about this recipe. Cream cheese frosting is the best!!
My favorite cake is red velvet with cream cheese frosting. But I can’t wait to try vintage cake. Gonna make it now:)
I am a vanilla fan myself! Pretty cakes!
Looks delicious! I’m a new blogger and look forward to connecting with you.
Yum!
Chocolate is always my favorite, but almond is a nice second.
Red Velvet is always a favorite at my house!
My favorite flavor is cherry chip or cannoli cake!
Chocolate raspberry cake!
Chocolate
My favorite cake is an italian cream cake!
Can’t wait to try this vintage cake! Great for Easter!
Oh I’m so glad I caught this giveaway in time 🙂 Love me all kinds of cake but I LOVE chocolate!! Like any girl should :$
Italian cream cake, yummy!
WOW! This cake looks so yummy! And I really like that is so simple to make! I love the idea of the surprises inside the cakes! It’s something I’ve been trying to do, but without luck… Would be amazing to have her book in my kitchen!
I just got my cookbook and I am planning on making it tomorrow for my husbands birthday cake. Did you make your white layers the day before?
I did make mine the day before – too much work for me to do it all in one day, lol. 🙂
Ok you start out with saying the white cake recipe is the best white cake you’ve ever had and then you say use a box mix???? I wanted to use the white cake recipe, do I have to buy the cookbook to get that recipe to use to make this cake?
Hi Michelle, the recipe for the white cake is hyperlinked in the instructions. Just click it and it will take you to Amanda’s recipe.
Hi, what if i do not want to use the box mix, can u send me the recipe to make it form scratch please? Its been ages since i used a box mix to make a cake now 🙂
Nats, just click on the link in the recipe instructions where it says ‘white cake.’ It will take you to Amanda’s awesome white cake recipe. 🙂
Very nice. i like chocolate much.
Cake looks delicious so I am going to be making it for a friends wedding and I am going to use the decadent brownie recipe. I have a question though, this cake is 9″ and the brownie recipe calls for a 8″ round pan, do I just adjust the time?
This look divine! Definitely making this for my grandma’s birthday party, hope it turns out well 🙂
P.S. Could anyone tell me how long it can sit and whether I should keep it in a fridge or at room temperature?
Hi Ashley I totally agree with you on special cake decorations but I want to take a class specifically for that because I plan to master that…but this cake looks so good and yes I am going to make it for sure…..The mere thought of the chocolate sauce has me curious esp when it includes condense milk…..cant wait to make it and post the end results…thanks a bunch for posting …
Do the Brownie recipe make this what appears to be a very thin layer cake or must I half it?
Wilton’s cake decorating classes how did u like them I was thinking about taking a class or to I was just wondering r they a lot fun
I really enjoyed them, Pamela!
This cake turned out perfectly! It was such a hit! I used the white cake recipe and then used a box brownie mix. I put a layer of Nutella on top of the brownie instead of the chocolate sauce. I’ll definitely be making this cake again for birthdays to come! Thanks for the recipe!!
This Vintage cake is wonderful. I made it using the traditional recipes and it was great!!!
Everyone that tried it loved it.
Is the almond flavor noticeable in the perfect white cake recipe? Thinking of using all vanilla or a different flavor extract, not a big almond fan.
Hello, I am making this cake for my son’s upcoming birthday and I need to know if I can substitute vanilla extract for the tsps of almond extract in the perfect white cake recipe. I am not a big fan of the flavor, but I also don’t want to use too much vanilla. Is the almond flavor noticeable in this recipe? Thanks!
I see this recipe says to use 9″ pans but her white cake recipe is for 8″. Did you revert to the original recipe she mentioned on her website?
Made this at Thanksgiving. My husband loved the almond flavor surprise in the white cake. Will be doing this at Christmas.
I love the look of this cake… so elegant! I bet it is super yummy, too! =)
I made this cake This weekend for my sister’s birthday. I used a box mix for the first brownie layer. I couldn’t get it put of the pan in one piece, so I ended up using the link to the home made brownies. I also used the link for the white cake. This is very good, but very rich. This is definitely a special occasion cake.
For the brownie – what did you do to “prepare the pan”? I’m making this cake on Saturday and I want to make sure I’m able to get the brownie layer out of the pan easily! Thanks!
LOVE THIS RECIPE – YOU COULD MAKE THIS AND TAKE IT ANYWHERE AND EVERYONE WOULD LOVE IT. IT IS SUCH A BEACUTIFUL
CAKE CAN’T WAIT TO MAKE IT. THANKS FOR SHARING!
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This cake was great, but you should add to the instructions, to line ALL of the cake and brownie pans with parchment paper. The brownies were especially hard to get out of the pan in one piece, especially since you can’t let them cool. I just hope I was able to salvage it. I know the bottom layer of cake will come apart when I cut it.
Jen, thanks for that tip. Can you share your impression of the cake after making. I wish Ashley had responded to some of the comments here from people who actually made the cake. I am concerned about people saying the chocolate never soaked in. Also, one person said there is a discrepancy in 8 vs 9 in cake pans. It looks fabulous, but the few people who gave feedback here did not seem too positive. Although it was tough to sift through all the comments unrelated to this cake or who never made it.
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My website has a lot of exclusive content I’ve either created
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Wow any kind of cake, but especially chocolate!
Want to try this for my Sisters birthday! I think she will love it!
I hope she loves it, Kathy! It really is fantastic!
I just made this delicious cake for my daughter’s 10th birthday party. It is a yummy recipe! Followed exactly, no need to change a thing. Thank you!