White Christmas Cake with all natural almond decor is just so stunning!
There is nothing better than beautiful & easy cakes for the holidays!
And this Vegan White Christmas Cake is made with just two simple recipes
The hardest part about this entire cake is picking out the best sliced almonds to make the pine cones!
So be forewarned you will need about an hour to do that part!
Don’t forget to check out the double chocolate version of this cake too!
WATCH THE YOUTUBE VIDEO FOR HOW I MADE THIS WHITE CHRISTMAS CAKE
Notes for Success
Typically I make 7″ cakes with 3 layers but for the holidays I always go with 2 layer 8″ cakes!
Make it even easier with my famous Box Cake Hack or go the scratch route and use my Truly White Cake Recipe
TOOLS I’M USING FOR THIS CAKE
White Christmas Cake
Ingredients
- 1 Recipe White Cake
- OR 1 Box Cake Hack for Duncan Hines White Cake
- 1 Recipe Your Favorite Buttercream
- 1 teaspoon Almond extract *optional
- 1 teaspoon Vegan Lactic Acid *optional see notes
- 8 ounces Sliced Almonds
- Fresh Rosemary sprigs as needed
Instructions
- If you are using the box cake hack follow the instructions for the yellow cake box but use a white cake box instead.
- Otherwise make the scratch white cake recipe but you will need a double recipe to make 2-8" cake layers
- While the cakes are baking prepare your favorite recipe for buttercream & I added a teaspoon of almond extract to mine with a teaspoon of lactic acid as well *optional
- Follow the video tutorial for how to assemble the cake & make the almond pine cones
Video
Notes
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This is such a beautiful cake! I love white cakes for Christmas… I’m thinking I might make the cream cheese frosting for this one. So beautiful and festive looking. Thanks for sharing your recipes. You are the goddess of vegan baking.
Beautiful absolutely beautiful, Gretchen…same as all of your artistic creations that you so kindly share with us. ????????????
Love ALL your recipes…have your cook book as well!! Love it!!
You are indeed the Queen of vegan baking!! Thank you!
Thank you Doreen!
Hi gretchen i love white cakes.Your creation is so beautiful
I am SO excited – I just made this cake and the Swiss buttercream today!! Can’t wait to taste it tomorrow!! First time using Aquafaba. I don’t have a stand mixer, so I used my Vitamix to get the glossy/creamy stage of the cake batter and also to do most of the work for the meringue in the frosting. For the frosting, I put the Aquafaba-sugar-cream of tartar mixture into the Vitamix and mixed on high for what seemed like a long time (didn’t think of running a stop watch), then transferred to a mixing bowl amd finished the meringue with the hand mixer. It worked beautifully!
Oooh great hack with the blender!