Sugar-and-Spice Cake

Ingredients

• 2 teaspoons apple pie spice 
• 0.3 cup butter melted
• 2 large eggs 
• 16 oz cup heavy whipping cream sour
• 1 sprigs garnishes: sparkling sugar 
• 12 servings vanilla buttercream 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 
• 18.3 oz duncan hines classic decadent cake mix white

Equipment

• bowl
• oven
• plastic wrap
• hand mixer

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 35
2. Beat together first 6 ingredients and, if desired, almond extract at low speed with an electric mixer just until dry ingredients are moistened. Increase speed to medium, and beat 2 minutes or until batter is smooth, stopping to scrape down bottom and sides of bowl as needed.
3. Pour batter into 3 greased and floured 8-inch round cake pans.
4. Bake at 350 for 20 to 22 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks 5 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks, and cool completely (about 1 hour). Wrap in plastic wrap, and freeze 1 hour or up to 1 month.
5. Spread Vanilla Buttercream between layers and on top and sides of cake.
6. Garnish, if desired.
7. Note: For testing purposes only, we used Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe Classic White Cake Premium Cake
8. Mix.