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Preheat the oven to 350.
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Spray 3 - 8 inche cake pans with bakers sprspray
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Whisk together in a bowl flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt
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In another bowl beat butter and sugar until creamy, add flour and milk and give a stir to moisten, then beat in eggs and vanilla, add flour mixture and stir to blend
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Remove 1/3 of the batter to a seperate bowl, this will be your white layer.
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To the remaining batter, add enough drops of red food color to get a vivid red.
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Pour red batter into 2 of the prepared pans and the white batter in the remaining third pan
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Bake about 12 to 15 minutes just until a toothpick comes out clean.
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Cool on racks in pans 10 minutes , then remove and cool completely before frosting
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MAKE FROSTING AND FILLING
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Make 1 1/2 recipes of my Basic Creamy Buttercream frosting in order to have enough to fill and frost the entire cake.
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Recipe attached below.
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Use 1 1/2 cup butter and 6 cups confectioner's sugar , adding more cream as needed, see tip in recipe for perfect light creamy frosting
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ASSEMBLE CAKE
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Place one cooled red layer of cake bottom side up on serving plate
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Frost with some of the vanilla buttercream frosting
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Add the white layer, bottom side up
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Frost with some frostung
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Top with the second red layer of cake, bottom up
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Frost entire cake with tthe frosting
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Garnish cake with sprinkles.
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Chill cake for 2 hours for easy slicing
