Chocolate Chip Vanilla Cake

To make CAKE
Ingredients:

• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cup(s) sugar
• 1/2 stick of butter (add 1 stick if you're not afraid of the extra calories)
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• Pinch salt
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 cup water
• 3/4 cup oil
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 3 large eggs
• 1-1 1/2 cups mini–chocolate chips

Directions:

• Heat oven to 350ºF. Coat with cooking spray or butter, 9inch or 10inch round cake pan.  I separated the batter into two cake pans to create a "layered cake" (Yes, you can say I'm fancy lol :)
• Mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. 
• Whisk milk, water, oil, vanilla and eggs in a 4-cup liquid measuring cup or medium bowl.
• Slowly pour in the milk/water mixture in the flour mix. Whisk well. 
• Stir in chips.
• Pour in the pan, and bake in oven until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. (~30mins).
• Cool cake in pan on wire rack 30 minutes. Carefully remove from pan, and cool completely.

To make stabilized whipped cream FROSTING:
Ingredients:

• 1 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
• 4 teaspoons cold water
• 1 cup heavy whipping cream
• 1/4 cup confectioners sugar

Directions:

• In a small pan, combine gelatin and cold water; let stand until thick.
• Place over low heat, stirring constantly, just until the gelatin dissolves.
• Remove from heat; cool (do not allow it to set).
• Whip the cream with the icing sugar, until slightly thick.
• While slowly beating, add the gelatin to whipping cream.
• Whip at high speed until stiff.

Shave some of the tops of the two layers to easily stack.  I added a bit of blueberry preserve between the two layers.  Coat your cake completely with the whipped cream.  

Ugly sweater party decorations:

I drew/cut out a sweater top over some wax paper.  I sprinkled in different holiday sweets over the stencil on the cake.