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Vanilla-Buttermilk Wedding Cake with Raspberries and Orange Cream-Cheese Frosting

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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Katherine Sacks

Baking a wedding cake is not as crazy—or difficult—as it sounds! This stunning and delicious cake is designed to be as streamlined as possible. The moist buttermilk cake requires no trimming, the cream cheese frosting is much more simple (and just as stable) as wedding cake's typical buttercream, and edible flowers and pretty raspberries make decorating a breeze.

Cooks' Note

If any cake layers are uneven or domed, use a long serrated knife to trim and make them flat.

If displaying for longer than 1 hour or transporting cake fully assembled, use dowels to keep it more secure. After 10" cake layer is fully frosted, insert 1 dowel through it and mark with a pencil on the dowel where it meets the top of the cake. Remove dowel and use this guide to cut 5 dowels. Insert cut dowels into 10" cake in a circle so that they fall within the area where the 6" cake will rest. Follow the instructions above to continue assembling the cake, placing the 6" cake directly on top of the dowels.

For even more stability, when the cake is fully frosted, drive a sharpened wooden dowel that is slightly shorter than the entire cake through its center.

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