Pink Champagne Cake

Name: Pink Champagne Cake
Yield: Serves 8 to 10
Ingredients: 6 , egg whites, room temperature; 1 cup, Champagne, room temperature; 2 teaspoons, vanilla extract; 6 drops, red food coloring; 2 1/4 cups (9 ounces/255 grams), cake flour; 1 3/4 cups (12 1/4 ounces/347 grams), sugar; 4 teaspoons, baking powder; 1 teaspoon, salt; 12 tablespoons, unsalted butter, softened but still cool; 12 ounces (340 grams), pink candy melts; 3 cups, pastry cream; 3 cups, vanilla buttercream frosting

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Appears in Cook's Country April/May 2017

This bubbly showstopper is the pride of the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, California.

SERVES 8 to 10

TIME 2¼ hours, plus 2 hours cooling

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