Sugar Sprinkle Cake

Category: Cake > Butter Cake > Decorated



This was the cake I decorated as my final project cake for the second Wilton's Cake Decorating class. I really hate decorating cakes in class because the work area isn't very clean and it is small. As it turns out, my hand slipped in class while trying to pick the cake up for the class picture, and it ruined some of the basket-weave. I knew I would have to fix it at home. By the time I got home, the ride and the heat had caused most of the side to start to come off. So I just scrapped it all off and redid it all. Turns out the second time I did it (at home!) it turned out a million times better looking. I didn't take a picture, so this one will have to do.

The cake is a funfetti cake with 3 layers. A layer of red frosting, a layer of blue frosting, and a layer of yellow frosting. I wanted to experiment with a rainbow - gradient top. An air brush would have worked best, but since I don't have an air brush, I used colored sugar sprinkles instead. It turned out okay and makes for an interesting looking cake.

To make the color sugar sprinkles, all I did was place some caster sugar in a ziplock bag with a few drops of food color. I shook the bag around until all the dye was incorporated. Voila! Homemade sprinkles. You don't have to buy them anymore, plus you can get the exact color you want.

Garfield Cake

Category: Cake > Decorated > Garfield Cake

My dentist absolutely loves Garfield. She has Garfield everything in her office. I made this cake for her and the people at her office.



Tips:

• Frost your cake and have it ready to decorate. Print out or draw the outline or image you want on your cake. Place a piece of wax paper over the picture. Use colored piping gel to trace the image onto the wax paper. Turn the wax paper over, gel side down, onto the cake and gently trace over the gel to transfer it to the cake. Carefully lift up the wax paper. You should have the outline pressed into the cake top. You can then trace and fill in the outline with icing.
  

Black Forest Cake

Category: Cake > Butter > Black Forest Cake

Black Forest Cake is a chocolate cake baked with kirsch. It is filled and covered with whipped cream and cherries. The top is decorated with cherries, whipped cream and chocolate curls.



Recipe:

• 1 Chocolate Cake Mix
  
• 1 Can of Cherry Pie Filling
  
• 2 Cups Heavy Whipping Cream
  
• 2 tbsp. Sugar
  
• 1 tsp. Vanilla
  
• 1 oz. Semi-Sweet Chocolate
  
• 1/4 cup Kirsch
  

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix chocolate cake mix to directions on back of box. Substitute 1/4 cup kirsch for 1/4 cup water that is called for on the cake mix box. Pour mixture in pan and bake as instructed on cake mix box.

While cake is baking, start on making the whipped cream. Place cold whipping cream in medium bowl. Whip until it starts to get foamy, about 3 minutes. Place in refrigerator, along with the mixer beaters for 15 minutes to chill.

After the whipping cream and beater are chilled, added sugar and vanilla to bowl. Whip until stiff peaks form. Placed the whipped cream back into the refrigerator until you are ready to use.

Grate the semi-sweet chocolate with a grater and set aside to use to decorate the cake later.

Once your chocolate cake is completely cool, you can torte the cake and fill with 1/4 of the whipped cream and half the can of cherry pie filling. Use the rest of the whipped cream to frost the top and sides of the cake. Place the remaining cherry pie filling on top of the cake. Sprinkle the grated chocolate on top of the cake.

Chill cake and serve. To store cake, make sure you keep it in the refrigerator.

Baking Tips:

• The above is a very simple Black Forest Cake. You can even leave the kirsch out if you don’t have any.
  
• You can make your own cherry filling and add kirsch to the cherries.
  
• Instead of vanilla, you can add kirsch to the whipping cream.
  
• Some recipes don’t add kirsch to the cake, but rely on kirsch in the cherry mixture and/or whipped cream.
  
• It doesn’t matter what type of chocolate cake you use. Any type of chocolate cake mix will do or you can make a chocolate cake from scratch.
  
• Now-a-days cake mixes are as good, if not better, than cakes made from scratch. Don’t feel like you must make a cake from scratch for it to be good.
  
• You can decorate the cake however you would like. If you have to level the cake, you can crumble the dome you cut off and use it to sprinkle onto the cake.