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Rose Water Cake
Ingredients
- 1 cup white sugar
- 0.5 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1.5 cups all-purpose flour
- 1.75 teaspoons baking powder
- 0.25 teaspoon salt
- 0.25 cup half-and-half
- 0.25 cup rose water
- 2 drops red food coloring, or as desired
- 3 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 tablespoon half-and-half, or more as needed
- 1.5 teaspoons vanilla extract
Steps
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9-inch cake pan.
- Cream sugar and butter for cake together in a bowl with an electric mixer. Beat in eggs, one at a time, then stir in vanilla extract. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt separately, then add to mix, and cream together. Stir in half-and-half and rose water. Add a few drops of food coloring to turn pinkish (or whatever color you want). Pour into the prepared pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, 30 to 40 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen. Invert carefully onto a serving plate or cooling rack. Let cool, about 30 minutes.
- While cake cools, beat confectioners' sugar and butter with an electric mixer on low speed, then increase speed to medium for about 3 minutes. Add half-and-half and vanilla extract and beat for 1 minute more. Add more half-and-half if frosting is too thick. Frost cooled cake.
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