okay after making this incredibly easy and super moist spice cake your house is literally going
to smell the best it ever has so to start off you want to preheat your oven to 160 degrees Celsius
with the fan on and grease or line two eight inch cake tins I'm using some homemade cake
release today which I absolutely love it saves so much time okay set your prepared cake tins aside
and in a bowl you want to sift together your dry ingredients so I've got two and a quarter
cups of all-purpose flour a quarter cup of corn flour also known as cornstarch one and a half
teaspoons of baking powder half a teaspoon of baking soda half a teaspoon of salt two and a
half teaspoons of ground cinnamon one and three quarters of a teaspoon of ground ginger half a
teaspoon of ground cloves and half a teaspoon of ground nutmeg and then using a whisk just whisk
that all together until well combined you can also use cake flour in replacement of the all-purpose
flour and cornstarch oh my God this already smells amazing Now set your dry ingredients aside and in
another Bowl we're going to combine together our wet ingredients so I've got one and a half cups
of firmly packed soft brown sugar three room temperature eggs 1 cup of unflavored vegetable
oil 1 cup of unsweetened applesauce 2 teaspoons of vanilla and half a cup of room temperature
Greek yogurt and then again using a whisk just whisk that all together until well combined
so you should end up with a very liquidy mixture like this and now all that's left
to do is pour our wet ingredients into our dry ingredients and then gently fold
it through with a spatula until just combined it's really important not to
over mix this batter otherwise you will end up with a very dense cake
and that is literally it it is so so easy to put together and now all that's left to do is evenly
distribute this batter into our two pre-prepared cake turns now I'm just giving my cake tins a
little bang to get rid of any large air bubbles and now these are going to go into the oven for
28 to 30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean so my cake layers are done now they've been
Cooling in the pans for about 15 minutes and now I'm just running a thin knife around the edges
of the pan to release my cakes and then turning them out onto a wire rack to completely cool I
honestly just cannot express how incredible these smell right now and just look at how soft these
cake layers are now while these are cooling let's go ahead and make the most incredible
cream cheese frosting it is so easy to make so all you have to do is add one cup or 225 grams
of room temperature unsalted butter to a bowl and using a hand mixer or stand mixer whip it
until it's light and creamy so this should take about three to four minutes if you're
using your stand mixer then you want to use the paddle attachment on a medium high speed
okay now once your butter is much lighter in color like that then the next thing that you want to do
is add in four and a half cups of icing sugar in three batches so add in about a third first and
on a low speed mix until it's combined then add in your next third mix until it's combined and
then add in the rest and mix until combined and you want to scrape down your bowl every now and
then as you're doing this just to make sure everything's mixing well okay now to finish
off you want to add in about one and a half cups so that's 335 grams of cold cream cheese now you want
to make sure that your cream cheese is of the firm type not the spreadable type and make sure it's
cold because this is going to help make sure that our cream cheese frosting isn't too soft and then
you also want to add in one and a half teaspoons of vanilla and one and a half tablespoons of fresh
lemon juice and then just mix that together on a medium high speed for a few minutes until
everything is well combined and your frosting is super smooth and creamy and that is it you should
end up with a beautifully smooth not too soft cream cheese buttercream so my cake layers are
cool now so let's assemble this cake so because I have a little doming on my cakes I'm just starting
off by trimming off the tops with a serrated knife so that I have nice flat cake layers now
to stack my cake I'm starting off by placing my first cake layer directly onto my cake stand and
then I'm placing a generous amount of frosting on top and using my offset spatula to spread it
out now for this cake I'm going for a rustic look so I'm not going to be covering the sides so I'm
trying to be as neat as possible because you'll be able to see the frosting on the edges then
I'm placing my next cake layer on top and again neatly spreading out a generous amount of frosting
and then to finish off decorating I'm just placing some walnuts and pecans around the
top edges of the cake and that is it my beautiful spice cake is all done this cake is packed with
flavor and it's so incredibly soft and moist and it just gives you the warmest coziest vibes
mmm oh my God it's so so soft and it's so flavorful it's just got all those beautiful
spices coming through if you try out this recipe don't forget to leave a
review on my blog I love hearing from you guys and I'll see you in the next video