Whole Wheat Vanilla Birthday Cake & A Blog Birthday!
on May 24, 2016, Updated Nov 06, 2020
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Whole Wheat Vanilla Birthday Cake & A Blog Birthday!
Ingredients
Scale
Cake:
- 1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon grass fed butter, softened
- 1 1/2 cups coconut sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- 3 large eggs
- 1 1/4 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk + 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 2 cups whole wheat flour
- ¼ cup arrowroot
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
Frosting:
- 1 can coconut cream, all liquid removed
- ¼ cup coconut sugar
- sprinkles (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Spray two 8 inch cake pans, three 6 inch pans or a 9×13-inch pan with cooking spray and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, with paddle attachment, cream butter for 2 minutes. Add coconut sugar and beat for 1 more minute. Then add eggs and extracts and mix to combine. In a small bowl combine almond milk and lemon juice.
- In another bowl combine the flour, arrowroot, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add â…“ of the flour mix to the butter mix, then half the almond milk and repeat until everything is mixed in.
- Pour batter into prepared pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees for about 25-35 minutes (depending on the pan you use) or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Allow to cool completely before frosting.
Frosting:
- Place the can of coconut cream in the refrigerator for about an hour so it will firm up. Open the can and pour off any excess liquid. Combine cream and coconut sugar in a mixer with a whisk attachment and whip together until combined. Spread Coconut Frosting on top on cake or between layers. Top with sprinkles if desired!
Happy Birthday to Little Bits Of!! Kelsey, you should be so proud of all of your hard work! Your blog is one of my favourites to read and one of my inspirations! Take time today to celebrate your accomplishments, and eat some of that cake, it looks amazing!
Ah Britney you made my day!!! So glad you are a reader and blogger friend!!! Yes yes, time to eat some cake!! 🙂 XO
Happy Birthday!!! The other day I was looking back on your old recipes and noticed they were all sweets haha! Nothing wrong with that. This cake looks amazing and so do your photos! Eat all the cake to celebrate this week 🙂
I know right!? I was all about the baking until about a year ago when I got my life together!! Haha Thanks lady!!!
Haaappppy Bloggiversary! This looks like the perfect cake to celebrate all you’ve done in the last four years!
Here’s to dozens more! 😉 xo
Thanks so much Kristy!! 🙂
yay happy 4 years! No better way to celebrate than with that delicious cake! pinned 🙂
Thanks so much Rachel!! 🙂
when it’s the arrowroot used???
AH! Thank you for catching that! Just updated the recipe – it goes in with the flour!
Mm… I love how you didn’t frost the whole cake, so you could catch the drizzle factor in between layers. Happy Birthday girl! It’s amazing that you’ve been blogging for 4 years, and I didn’t know you could paint a Kitchen Aid mixer. I love your recipes that I’ve seen, and I want to try more!
Thanks Emily!! 🙂
Hi! Is arrowroot necessary? Could I sub white flour for that?
You could! Or cornstarch if you have that on hand! 🙂
Hi thanks for this recipe. Can I use other type of sugar like cane sugar instead? Same measures?
Thanks!
Yes you can!
Hi,
I, like you, have tried to find a whole wheat vanilla cake recipe and it is surprisingly difficult, so thanks for coming up with one! If I use normal milk instead of almond, do I still need to use the lemon juice?
I will be baking this in the next few hours so a prompt answer would be super helpful. Thanks, Eva
Yes I would still use the lemon juice!!
I love your recipes and want to see more. Thank you for sharing this with us.