Ingredients:
Cake
2 2/3 cups - cake flour
1 tablespoon - baking powder
3/4 teaspoon - salt
1 2/3 cups - Florida Crystals® Organic Cane Sugar
3/4 cup - butter or margarine, softened
3 - eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons - vanilla
1 cup - milk
Buttercream Frosting (recipe follows)
Green food coloring
Red candies


Preparation:
Preheat oven to 350°F. Generously grease and flour 13x9-inch baking pan. Line the bottom with wax or parchment paper. Grease paper and set aside.

In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking powder and salt. In large mixing bowl beat sugar and butter until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla. Add flour and milk alternately, beginning and ending with flour, mixing on low speed. Pour into prepared pan.

Bake 35-40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes; invert onto cooling rack and cool completely. Remove wax paper.

Cut cake into Christmas stocking shape using the photo as a guide.

Decorate the cake:
Frost the upper top of cake with a thin layer of white buttercream to form white top of stocking. Using 3/4 cup of the white buttercream, fill a pastry bag fitted with a star tip. Overpipe the white stocking top with stars. Frost the remaining stocking with green buttercream. Use remaining white buttercream to outline stocking toe and heel. Decorate with red candies.

Makes 12-15 servings.

Buttercream Frosting:
Combine in large bowl with mixer at low speed, 1 (1-lb.) pkg. Domino Organic Powdered Sugar (approx. 3 3/4 cups), 1/2 cup softened butter or margarine, 1 teaspoon vanilla and 2-3 tablespoons milk or half and half. Beat at medium speed 1-2 minutes until creamy. If desired, add more milk until frosting is spreading consistency. Remove 1 cup of white frosting and set aside. Tint remaining frosting green.

Serving Quantity: 12-15 servings

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