Claire Saffitz Makes Confetti Cake | Dessert Person. Get ready to party! And by party, we mean stay at home and be safe. But fortunately, you need no special occasion to make this delicious, celebratory, kidfriendly, and deeply nostalgic confetti cake. A tender white birthday cake studded with rainbow sprinkles and covered in smooth, tangy cream cheese frosting, it tastes like childhood (which is to say, better than the box). We took a hiatus but Claire and her crew are back with Season II of Dessert Person check out this first episode!

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Special Equipment:
Stand mixer
Three 9inch cake pans

Ingredients:

Confetti Cake:
Butter for the pans
5 1/2 cups cake flour (23.3 oz/ 660g)
2 1/2 cups sugar (16.4 oz / 466g)
4 1/2 teaspoons baking powder (0.63 oz / 18g)
1 1/2 teaspoons Diamond Crystal kosher salt (0.16 oz / 5g)
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
3 sticks unsalted butter (12 oz / 340g), at room temperature
1 1/2 cups buttermilk (12.7 oz / 360g)
1/3 cup neutral oil, such as vegetable or grapeseed (2.6 oz / 75g)
3 large eggs (5.3 oz / 150g), at room temperature
6 large egg whites (7.4 oz / 210g), at room temperature
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon almond extract (optional)
1/2 cup storebought rainbow sprinkles (3.3 oz / 93g), plus more for decorating
Classic Cream Cheese Frosting


Video Breakdown:
0:00​ Start
0:11​ Intro to Confetti Cake
0:32​ Show Intro / Animation
0:59​ Funfetti Cake (Birthday Cake) Ingredients
2:42: Special Equipment / Ingredients
4:14​ Mix The Dry Ingredients
5:53 Prep The Pans / Preheat Oven
10:48 Fill Pans & Baking
12:46​ How To Make Cream Cheese Frosting
15:16 Level The Layers
17:05 Assemble The Cake
21:10 Cake Frosting / Claire Makes Birthday Cake
23:37 Outro / Tasting Confetti Cake
24:26 Felix Cameo
24:38 Archie Debut


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Dessert Person Cookbook
Photographer: Alex Lau
Food Stylist: Sue Li
Prop Stylist: Astrid Chastka

Video Series:
Producer/Director: Vincent Cross
Camera Operator: Calvin Robertson
Sound Engineer/Music: Michael Guggino
Editor: Brooke Shuman

Animation Credits:
Character Designer/Animator: Jack Sherry
Character Rigger: Johara Dutton
Background/Prop Designer: M. Cody Wiley
Background Illustrator: Jagriti Khirwar