The Easiest and Prettiest Cake you will ever make! I just want to start out by saying I am NOT a baker! I do love to decorate things but if there is a will, there is a way!! So as if I am not busy enough lately, I committed to making a cake for my friend Kate’s Birthday Gathering. I kept swaying back and forth on if I should make/decorate or just buy something! However, I have been wanting to make this specific cake for awhile and I felt it was totally her style! If the shoe fits! haha. So, here you are, step by step!
Ingredients/Supplies(linked the important stuff):
3 Wilton 8 inch round cake pans(you can totally get away with 1)
Wilton Spatula as shown below
Pam Baking Spray(This stuff is life changing)
2 boxes yellow cake mix(or make your own)
2 containers white frosting(or make your own)
Powdered Sugar
It is great to have 3 pans because all I did was spray the pans, throw the mix in, and baked all 3 at the same time! They fit on one rack in the oven. The first time I ever did this I only had one pan. I literally baked each one at a time. lol. Ridic!
Pro Tip: Let them cool for about 15 mins in the pan, then take them out, let them cool completely, put them back into the pan until you are ready to decorate!
My cakes never cook even(flat) and for stacking they obviously need to be. All I did was slice the top of each of the 3 cakes with a huge knife to make it flat.
Next, I slathered frosting between each layer. Doesn’t need to be pretty, we will save that for the end.
Then I took the spatula(wiped the frosting off with a paper towel), held it vertical, and just went around the cake. This gave it that smoother look and also made the frosting kind of spread out.
I wish I would have gotten a better picture of this step….let me tell you it was a HOT mess!!! It’s all part of the fun. This is the part where I absolutely don’t know what I am doing but I just want the cake to look a certain way, so I literally threw the powdered sugar all over it! and Ta-Da!!! Doesn’t she look pretty?!?!?
I was lucky enough to have faux succulents laying around the house! All I did was stick them in the cake where I wanted them. SO easy!
The Finished Product!
Happy Baking!!!!
XOXO,
Lissa
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