Ingredients
The following ingredients have 16 Servings
- 4 cups cake flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 3 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 inch vanilla bean (seeds scraped into the batter pod set aside (add the pod to the sugar bowl for vanilla sugar))
- 2 cups buttermilk
- 6 egg whites (unbeaten)
- 1/4 cup Maraschino cherries (finely chopped)
- 18 ounces white chocolate chips
- 3 cups unsalted butter (cut in cubes, room temperature)
- 9 cups confectioner's sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons almond extract
- 3/4 cup heavy cream (very cold)
