Frog Princess Cake: 12" round, 4-layer vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream decorated with fondant and food coloring pen
Hoppy Birthday Cake: 8" round, 2 layer vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream decorated with fondant, food coloring pens and luster dust
The first cake was a special request by the birthday girl herself-a Frog Princess! The second was just for fun, due to the fact that I had left over batter and couldn't let it go to waist. I wanted the family to have another cake to take home for their own family party the next day so that they didn't have to take a half-eaten cake home from Chuck E. Cheese.
I had recently found the most delectable vanilla cake recipe out of a cupcake cookbook and thought I'd just up the amount to see how well it hold up as a cake. It was light and moist with a true vanilla taste to it, unlike white or yellow cake. As a self confessed "choco-holic", I have chocolate cake recipes to die for, but an amazing vanilla cake proved to be rather elusive so I was thrilled when this new recipe worked out so well!
The frosting both inside and out was a rich vanilla buttercream, making this a supreme vanilla cake. The only drawback is that because of it's airy texture, it doesn't carve well, so I had to keep most of this 4-layer cake intact. All the accents on the frog princess were from rolled fondant mixed with various food coloring gels, with a little food coloring pen for the eyes and diamond-shaped sugar decorations for the tiara.
The second cake was also a vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream frosting, but on a much smaller scale. It was just a lot of fun to put a bunch of hopping frogs and flowers (with my favorite decorating item- LUSTER DUST!) around the sides with whimsical yellow and green fondant decorations across the bottom. I couldn't resist putting "Hoppy Birthday" at the top!
Hoppy Birthday Cake: 8" round, 2 layer vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream decorated with fondant, food coloring pens and luster dust
The first cake was a special request by the birthday girl herself-a Frog Princess! The second was just for fun, due to the fact that I had left over batter and couldn't let it go to waist. I wanted the family to have another cake to take home for their own family party the next day so that they didn't have to take a half-eaten cake home from Chuck E. Cheese.
I had recently found the most delectable vanilla cake recipe out of a cupcake cookbook and thought I'd just up the amount to see how well it hold up as a cake. It was light and moist with a true vanilla taste to it, unlike white or yellow cake. As a self confessed "choco-holic", I have chocolate cake recipes to die for, but an amazing vanilla cake proved to be rather elusive so I was thrilled when this new recipe worked out so well!
The frosting both inside and out was a rich vanilla buttercream, making this a supreme vanilla cake. The only drawback is that because of it's airy texture, it doesn't carve well, so I had to keep most of this 4-layer cake intact. All the accents on the frog princess were from rolled fondant mixed with various food coloring gels, with a little food coloring pen for the eyes and diamond-shaped sugar decorations for the tiara.
The second cake was also a vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream frosting, but on a much smaller scale. It was just a lot of fun to put a bunch of hopping frogs and flowers (with my favorite decorating item- LUSTER DUST!) around the sides with whimsical yellow and green fondant decorations across the bottom. I couldn't resist putting "Hoppy Birthday" at the top!
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