So here it is....my first real cake decorating video and post! I made chocolate cake, filled with chocolate icing, and covered in blue and white flowers and stars.
This cake looks a little hard to make, but in reality is very easy ! To start out, I baked two nine inch chocolate cakes, let them cool, and leveled them using my cake leveler. Then I filled and stacked them. I used store bought icing to fill the cake. More info on that below. I finally crumb coated them and put them in the freezer to chill for 15 minutes.
For this cake, I made some American buttercream, and dyed half of it blue. I used some blue food coloring I had on hand, and probably put about 5-6 drops of in in my buttercream. I was worried I would not have enough buttercream to pipe on the outside of my cake if I were to fill it with my buttercream. So instead of filling my cake with the buttercream, I used a can of chocolate store bought icing I had in the pantry. So I filled and crumb coated my cakes with that. The top of the cake was not very crumby, so the top of the cake is actually just the crumb coat! However, if your cake is crumby, you will have to ice the top of your cake again before you pipe, or pipe flowers on the top of the cake as well.
For the flowers and stars, I used Wilton's #32 star tip. As you will see in the video, I swirled the icing and and filled in the gaps with stars.
Before I piped out the swirls, I took a wooden dowel I had and marked lines on the side of the cake diagonally. I piped my swirls inside of these lines, so the stripes would be even.
The two colored icing looks so great! This would also look really good in pink and white, blue and gold, red and white, and other colors!
~ The Junior Baker
Blue and White Swirl Cake:
1. Bake two 9-inch round chocolate cakes. Allow them to cool, then remove them from their pans.
2. Make one portion of American buttercream. To make the buttercream, you will need 1 cup (227g) butter, softened, 4 cups (512g) powdered sugar, 4 tbsp. milk, and 1 tsp. vanilla. Whip the butter, then slowly add your powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla. Whip for a few more minutes. Dye half of the buttercream blue and leave the other half white.
3. Fill your cakes with your buttercream (make a little more), or icing of your choice. Then crumb coat your cakes.
4. Once the cake is chilled, use a ruler or dowel to mark diagonal lines on your cake.
5. Fill two piping bags with Wilton tip #32. One bag with blue, the other with white.
6. Pipe stars and swirls inside the diagonal lines, alternating between blue and white. Pipe some stars on top of your cake.
Enjoy!!
This cake looks a little hard to make, but in reality is very easy ! To start out, I baked two nine inch chocolate cakes, let them cool, and leveled them using my cake leveler. Then I filled and stacked them. I used store bought icing to fill the cake. More info on that below. I finally crumb coated them and put them in the freezer to chill for 15 minutes.
For this cake, I made some American buttercream, and dyed half of it blue. I used some blue food coloring I had on hand, and probably put about 5-6 drops of in in my buttercream. I was worried I would not have enough buttercream to pipe on the outside of my cake if I were to fill it with my buttercream. So instead of filling my cake with the buttercream, I used a can of chocolate store bought icing I had in the pantry. So I filled and crumb coated my cakes with that. The top of the cake was not very crumby, so the top of the cake is actually just the crumb coat! However, if your cake is crumby, you will have to ice the top of your cake again before you pipe, or pipe flowers on the top of the cake as well.
Before I piped out the swirls, I took a wooden dowel I had and marked lines on the side of the cake diagonally. I piped my swirls inside of these lines, so the stripes would be even.
~ The Junior Baker
Blue and White Swirl Cake:
1. Bake two 9-inch round chocolate cakes. Allow them to cool, then remove them from their pans.
2. Make one portion of American buttercream. To make the buttercream, you will need 1 cup (227g) butter, softened, 4 cups (512g) powdered sugar, 4 tbsp. milk, and 1 tsp. vanilla. Whip the butter, then slowly add your powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla. Whip for a few more minutes. Dye half of the buttercream blue and leave the other half white.
3. Fill your cakes with your buttercream (make a little more), or icing of your choice. Then crumb coat your cakes.
4. Once the cake is chilled, use a ruler or dowel to mark diagonal lines on your cake.
5. Fill two piping bags with Wilton tip #32. One bag with blue, the other with white.
6. Pipe stars and swirls inside the diagonal lines, alternating between blue and white. Pipe some stars on top of your cake.
Enjoy!!
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