What Shall We Bake Today?

In honor of Father’s Day this month, today’s offering is 3 Layer Bacon & Beer Cake!

Ingredients

2 boxes Vanilla Cake Mix

2 tubs Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

6 eggs

1 cup butter (2 sticks), melted

1 can beer

16 strips bacon

½ cup brown sugar (if making candied bacon)

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and spray 3 8-inch round cake pans with baking spray.

In a large bowl, mix together cake mix, eggs, butter and beer together until combined. Divide mix evenly into the three greased cake pans and bake at 350 degrees F for 22-25 minutes. Cool completely.

Cook bacon either on stovetop or in the oven until crispy. If cooking on a stovetop, cook the bacon on low heat for 5-7 minutes on each side and set on a paper towel to drain. If using the oven, cook at 400 degrees F for 20 minutes and set on a paper towel to drain. If you want to make candied bacon, rub brown sugar on both sides of the bacon before cooking.

Roughly chop 5 pieces of bacon and set aside.

Frost the top of one cake layer and sprinkle some bacon bits on top. Stack another cake layer on top and frost and sprinkle bacon. Stack the third cake layer on top. Frost the top and sides of the cake.

Place the bacon strips all the way around the edge of the cake. Top the remaining bacon bits on the top of the cake. Enjoy!