Green and White Lambeth Christmas Cake

An elegant Lambeth style cake, decorated with emerald green and white piped buttercream, perfect for Christmas.

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5 from 1 vote

Prep Time 1

Total Time 1

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings10

½ recipe Vanilla Cake
5x recipe American Vanilla Buttercream
Americolor gel food coloring (Forest Green, Electric Green, Turquoise, Leaf Green, Super Black)

Make 1/2 the recipe for Vanilla Cake as instructed, baking it in three 6-inch round cake pans. Cool the cake completely before frosting.
Make 5x the recipe for American Vanilla Buttercream.
Stack, fill and crumb coat the cooled cake with the vanilla buttercream. Use this post for guidance, if needed. Chill the crumb coated cake for 30 minutes.
Transfer 1 1/4 cups of the vanilla buttercream to a separate bowl, to color it green. Add a few drops each of Forest Green, Electric Green, Turquoise, Leaf Green and Super Black, adding a little more of each as needed to achieve a deep, emerald green color.
Frost the cake all over with a smooth, final coat of the green buttercream. Chill well, before decorating.
To decorate your cake with white piping, follow this Lambeth cake decorating tutorial. Freeze any leftover buttercream for another baking project.

Keyword Cake, Christmas, Green and White, Lambeth, Wedding