brown butter cake Archives

How to Make an Apple Cake
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A richly spiced apple cake filled with a perfect brown butter vanilla buttercream and topped with an intoxicating homemade caramel. This cake has all the fall flavors you love and is quite the crowd pleaser!

A FEW NOTES
You can save some time and skip browning the butter. You’ll still love the cake BUT definitely try that brown butter sometime!
If you’re not using 6-inch pans, double the recipe for 8-inch pans or triple the recipe for 9-inch pans.
You can substitute sour cream for the yogurt if desired, I do it all the time and can’t really tell the difference.
To get FLAT layers that are moist inside and out try using cake strips! You can buy a set or make your own from foil and paper towels at home. I made a whole blog post on it so check it out if you’re interested!

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How to Make a Brown Butter Cake
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OK so this cake is a must-make. A moist browned butter vanilla cake filler with creamy vanilla browned butter Italian meringue buttercream. If you don’t want to go all out and pipe buttercream orchids and all that, just stop at the crumb coat and get to eating, it’s just delicious and I love seeing all the flecks from the vanilla beans and caramelized butter bits. If you haven’t browned butter before you’ve got to try! Cooking it adds a depth of flavor, intensified nuttiness and this incredible aroma. Browned butter enhances both sweet and savory dishes, you’re going to be hooked!
So I’ve been enjoying experimenting a bit with different buttercream flowers on my cakes lately and it’s been so fun! I made a “painted” rose cake last week where I mostly used a palette knife to create petals and it gave an interesting three dimensional effect to the surface but this time I wanted to try and make some buttercream orchids. I had actually experimented piping them a few weeks ago, using them as cookie toppers and they worked well but I think a cake is the best venue for this flower 🙂 I should mention that I ordered two piping tips for this cake that made a huge difference, they’re shaped like curved tear drops and are a total game-changer, 120 and 127. You can use there to make many different typed of petals and I highly recommend them.