Snickerdoodle cake is a cinnamon sugar cake that can be made with white cake mix or from scratch using butter, sugar, flour, and cinnamon. It can be glazed with brown sugar buttercream frosting or dusted with cinnamon and sugar. The cake can be made into rectangular sheet cakes or round layer cakes with two or four layers.
Traditionally, snickerdoodles are cinnamon sugar cookies. A snickerdoodle cake translates the taste of the cookie into cake form. These cakes are often glazed with brown sugar buttercream frosting or dusted with cinnamon and sugar. They can be made into rectangular sheet cakes or round layer cakes with two or four layers.
The simplest versions of snickerdoodle cake use white cake mix as the main ingredient. Whole milk, eggs and butter are added, as well as vanilla and cinnamon. The from-scratch versions also use these ingredients, but instead of cake mix they include white sugar, all-purpose and cake flour, and baking powder. Occasionally, a solid shortening may be substituted for butter, and some versions omit the cake flour, using only all-purpose flour.
When you make a snickerdoodle pie using cake mix, all of the ingredients are simply mixed together at once and then poured into a large rectangular pan or, more often, two round pans. The cake is then baked and allowed to cool completely before being glazed. If it’s dusted with cinnamon and sugar rather than being glazed, the sprinkling usually occurs before baking.
Creating a snickerdoodle cake from scratch starts with creaming the butter and sugar. Creaming is a technique in which sugar is slowly combined with room-temperature butter to create a fluffy, air-filled mixture. This technique allows for light and fluffy finished cakes. After the cream, the eggs are beaten into the mixture. Then, the baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and flour are mixed or sifted together and added to the creamed butter in batches, alternating with the milk.
Subsequently, the dough can be divided into two round cake pans and baked. Once baked and cooled, the cake can be assembled and frozen. If four layers are used, each finished cake is cut into two layers. Then each layer is satin. The completed cake can be garnished with cinnamon sticks.
A brown sugar cinnamon buttercream frosting is normally used to frost a snickerdoodle cake. In addition to brown sugar and cinnamon, this frosting contains butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, and half-and-half or milk. The butter, sugar, and cinnamon are mixed together first, and then the rest of the ingredients are added in batches. If the finished glaze is too thick, more milk or half-and-half is added; if it’s too thin, more powdered sugar is included. The frosting will have a slightly grainy texture, to mimic the cinnamon-sugar texture of snickerdoodle cookies.
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