White Cake with Jack Daniels Butter Cream has 3 layers of moist, tender cake covered in a luscious buttercream flavored with Jack Daniels.

Exceptional recipes for basic desserts like white or chocolate cake can be so hard to find. This White on White Cake with Jack Daniel’s Buttercream is a recipe from The Pastry Queen: Royally Good Recipes from the Texas Hill Country’s Rather Sweet Bakery & Cafe (one of my favorite cookbooks). The cake batter part is fantastic and may become my go to recipe for making white layer cakes.

Jack Daniels Buttercream

I had high hopes for the Jack Daniel’s Buttercream. Who wouldn’t have high hopes for a buttercream with whiskey and 6 sticks of butter" Yes, you read that right. SIX sticks of butter. But the Buttercream was a disapointment. I kind of liked it one bite, then didn’t the next bite. Overall, I’ll have to say it was the strangest frosting I’ve ever tasted. The texture was very unusual and it almost tasted like the cake was frosted with nothing but an obscene amount of butter that had been whipped until velvety and silken.  I didn’t feel like there was enough sweetness in it to distract from the taste of butter.
White Cake Batter

However, if you are looking for a white cake batter, this just might be the one. The cake layers are thin, but they are exceptionally moist and tender with wonderful flavor. One of the best things about this cake is the cakes...