Birthday Cake with Hot Pink Butter Icing

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This is a really nice basic yella cake recipe. Some of the reviewers perhaps didn't review how much batter is made with this recipe- it's for a very large birthday cake- three tiers!! I halve it and it makes a perfect sized little 8 inch round 2 layer cake. It's very tasty- and moist enough- I think boxed cake mix is fine, though it always tastes baking soda-y to me- and I don't want all the crap in the boxed mix going into my kid's bodies. I've made it four times now. You can flavor the batter however you like- I've cut the lemon and added almond, doubled the lemon, done orange zest instead- and this time just doing it as written. The basic buttercream is very good and easy as well- both recipes are easy enough that my 7 year old has helped me make his "half" birthday cake two years in a row. Nice job, Ina- she's my little boy's favorite "girl" on food network!

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Now I know why the majority of cooks go out and buy a boxed mix cake. I was really looking forward to making this cake. The idea of one with a hint of lemon flavoring from zested lemon was appealing. I made sure I had room temperature butter and room temperature eggs. I whipped it up with all the required ingredients. I didn't hedge on anything. But to my amazement, it FELL! I had enough batter for two 13 x 9 cake pans. Both looked like collapsed volcanoes! With the corn starch added, I expected these cakes to be light and fluffy. No way! They're coarse and dense as old bread. After using 3 cups of sugar, 2 1/4 sticks of butter, 6 eggs, 3 cups of flour, and a cup of sour cream, my pantry is empty, and I have no dessert. A one dollar cake mix would have done the trick. Help us out here, Ina. I love you and your show but this recipe was a nightmare for me. No birthday celebration here!

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i have made this cake many times...it is an amazing cake and the icing was amazing too...my only issue is that if i make the cake in the morning for a party in the afternoon or that evening, the cake tends to be dry. i have noticed though that the same cake, a day or two later, its always 200 times better. so if you are going to make this cake for a birthday party, make it a day or two in advance. the cake does taste amazingly delicious.

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Delicious! Dense so it makes a great stacking cake but also very moist and rich. I haven't even made the frosting yet or cut into the cake. I ate a few of the trimmings from when I evened it up for stacking and they have the perect amount of lemon flavor (I used a large lemon. A few reviews had said it was dry so I wasn't sure what to expect but they obviously just did something wrong or the environment is really dry because this is one of the moistest homemade cakes I've ever made. Reminds me of a lemony version of the fourth of july flag cake from Ina Garten. The woman knows her cake!

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I just made the frosting. I was trying to use up box cake mix.I honestly think it was the best frosting I've ever had. I have even cut the recipe in half and it still works beautifully.

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This was the worst recipe I have even encountered. I was trying to make a quick bday cake for my niece. I added the lemon to the frosting as stated earlier. The cake tastes fine. The frosting is horrific. I cannot take the cake over it is so bad. I can't even fix the frosting. Pick another recipe

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It waz A really tasty Cake everyone should try It!

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It had good flavor but it was super dense and very heavy. It would be better if it was lighter. However, it stacks beautifully and was great to decorate.

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Very heavy, more like a pound cake, tasted great, but too dense... Would have been better with fresh strawberries and whipped cream, like a shortcake.

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The cake was heavy and tasted just ok. Next time i will try adding more egg whites to make it moist. Overall its an ok cake