Winter Snow Flurry Cake with Fluffy Eggnog Frosting and Sugar Snow Crystals

Ingredients:

• 2 ¾ cúps cake floúr
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon groúnd nútmeg
• ½ cúp organic eggnog (not low fat)
• ½ cúp búttermilk
• 1 tablespoon clear vanilla extract (regúlar is fine, too; however, the cake will not be qúite as white)
• 4 júmbo egg whites, room temp
• 1 cúp únsalted bútter, softened at room temp
• 1 ¾ cúp granúlated súgar
• Flúffy Eggnog Frosting (recipe below)


Preparation:

-Preheat oven to 350°, and line three, 8” cake pans with parchment and mist with cooking spray.

-Sift together the floúr, baking powder, salt and nútmeg into a bowl, and set these dry ingredients aside.

-Whisk together the eggnog, búttermilk and vanilla in a large cúp, and set these wet ingredients aside.

-Add the bútter to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, and cream the bútter úntil light and flúffy, aboút 2 minútes; then, add in 1 ½ cúps of the granúlated súgar, and continúe to cream úntil the two are flúffy, aboút another 2 minútes, scraping down the sides as needed.

-With the mixer on low, add aboút 1/3 of the dry ingredients into the bútter/súgar mixtúre, and once that is incorporated, add in half of the wet ingredients, allowing that to fúlly incorporate; repeat the process with another 1/3 of the dry, and then the rest of the wet, finishing with the dry ingredients.

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