Birthday Cake

3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
3/4 cup LAND O LAKES® Butter, softened
4 large eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 cup milk

3/4 cup LAND O LAKES Butter, softened
6 cups powdered sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup whipping cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons light corn syrup

Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour 2 (9-inch) round baking pans. Set aside.
Combine flour, baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt in large bowl. Set aside.
Beat 1 1/2 cups sugar and 3/4 cup butter in large mixer bowl at medium speed, scraping bowl occasionally, until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add 1 tablespoon vanilla. Reduce speed to low. Add flour mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition just until mixed.

Divide batter evenly between prepared pans. Bake for 29 to 34 minutes or until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool on wire racks 10 minutes. Loosen cake by running knife around inside edge of pans. Carefully remove cake from pans; cool completely.
Beat 3/4 cup butter in large bowl at medium speed until creamy. Gradually add powdered sugar and 1/8 teaspoon salt alternately with whipping cream and 1 teaspoon vanilla, scraping bowl often, until well mixed. Stir in corn syrup.
To assemble, place 1 cake layer on serving plate, bottom-side up; frost top. Place remaining cake layer over frosting, bottom-side down; frost top and sides of cake. Decorate as desired.

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Fire Truck Birthday Cake

3 pkg. (10 oz. each) frozen pound cake, thawed
1 tub (8 oz.) COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, thawed
4 to 6 drops red or yellow food coloring
6 miniature sugar cake donuts
12 thin pretzel sticks
2 black string licorice
16 assorted jelly or hard candies

TRIM rounded tops off pound cakes. Stack 2 of the cakes together using whipped topping in between the layers to hold together. (This is the back of the fire truck.)

CUT 1/3 off the end of the remaining pound cake. Lay the 2/3 portion of cake in front of and level with the bottom of stacked pound cakes. Place the 1/3 portion vertically on top to form an L-shape against the 2 stacked cakes. (This will form the cab of the truck and be slightly higher than the 2 stacked pound cakes. See photograph.)

TINT whipped topping with red or yellow food coloring until desired color is achieved. Frost entire fire truck. Attach 3 donuts on each side of the truck for wheels. Add pretzel sticks to create ladders on the sides and back of truck.

LAY licorice on top of the truck to make a water hose. Outline windows and doors with licorice. Place assorted candies on top of the cab as lights and on front of the truck for headlights. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

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