Fun(doesn't have to come in a box)fetti cake

This is a cake I created using a traditional white cake recipe and the only thing I added were colored sprinkles to give it the fun colors kids love without the box.  I used this for my boyfriend's niece's 6th birthday cake, and I'm sure this cake will see repeat performances in future cake required gatherings.

  Funtime Sprinkle Cake:
This recipe fills 2 (9-inch) X 1.5 inch cake pans*






Ingredients: 

• 12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) butter; softened
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 1/4 cups cake flour**
• 1tbsp + 1tsp baking powder
• 6 large egg whites (room temperature)
• 1 cup whole milk
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1-2 small jars of favorite sprinkles

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a large mixing bowl (this will be the batter bowl), beat butter and sugar on high until light and fluffy
• Stir together flour, baking powder and salt in a medium mixing bowl and set aside.
• In a separate mixing bowl combine the egg whites, milk and vanilla extract.
• Beat in about 1/3 of the flour mixture into the batter bowl and then add 1/2 the milk mixture and beat until blended.
• Beat in another 1/3 of the flour mixture until blended then add the remaining milk mixture.
• Once blended add the remaining flour mixture and beat for 2 min scraping the bowl and beater often.
• Pour the batter into prepared  pans and smooth the tops.  
• Bake 25-30 min or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Cool pan in rack for 5 min, then turn out onto a rack.

The cake pictured is filled with a chocolate buttercream frosting and frosted with a vanilla buttercream frosting.  Frost and fill the cake with your preferred frosting of choice.  Since the cake itself is so versatile you can play with many different frosting flavors.

*If you are looking to fill different cake pans I use this chart as a guide to the amount of batter different pans need to fill out. allrecipes

**You can use all-purpose flour in place of cake flour and I personally use this link Joy of Baking to help me with conversions.  The leavening agents in this recipe are calculated with cake flour in mind; if you decide to use all-purpose flour I would recommend only using 2 tsp baking powder.