VANILLA BEAN PISTACHIO CAKE

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So last-minute, my mom called me and asked if I had any plans for baking the next day. I did, but nothing that was in dire need of being made right away, just some stuff that I wanted to try. So I said not really. Well here last-minute she asks me to make my aunt a 70th (sorry Aunt Karen) birthday cake! So obviously since I love cake and I’m the nice daughter that I am I happily obliged.
So this is actually one of my go-to vanilla cake recipes. It’s super simple and it whips up really nice. I like to switch between vanilla beans, vanilla paste and vanilla extract depending on what type of filing or frosting I was doing. Since I was going with the light flavor of pistachio for this one I figured that vanilla bean would pair super well with it and boy was I right.

Ingredients

• 2 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 3/4 cup butter softened
• 1 1/2 cup sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 Rodelle Madagascar vanilla bean
• 1/2 tsp Rodelle vanilla paste or pure vanilla extract
• 1 cup milk
• Frosting:
• 1 lb butter
• 1 pkg pistachio pudding 3.4 oz
• 1 tsp Rodelle pure vanilla extract
• 5-6 cups powdered sugar
• 4-6 Tbs milk
• Chopped pistachios optional

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. In bowl mix together your flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt and whisk until combined, set aside.
3. In another bowl beat together your butter and sugar until fluffy, add in your eggs 1 at a time until blended
4. Mix in your vanilla bean and vanilla paste.
5. Alternate adding your dry ingredients and milk into your wet ingredients.
6. Place in 2 9" prepared cake pans and bake for about 25-30 minutes or until golden and they spring back.
7. ..............................

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