Let's talk about Cake

Wow this Cake turned out Fabulous. Their are some things I would like to try differently next time. For starters, I love pink but I was more hoping for a Rose pink. So I'm thinking I am going to try another shade of pink, and use 2 different pinks.


Let's look at the overall result, are you ready?? Let me know what you think? Do you think different Pink?

The overall flavor of the cake, was so moist and good. For me it was a little too plain. I think next time, I will go with a filling, maybe try to match as much as I can with the cake color. I loved that cake recipe I posted for you folks.

Let me tell you, this wasn't easy as I thought. Don't let that intimidate you. We just need to not give up & keep trying. My first batch of Ombre Frosting didn't turn out. But that didn't stop me, I was so excited to just start coloring the frosting, that I started moving too fast, adding in colors fast. 

I wasn't happy with the results & I will show you, why.

My first time, I started coloring the frosting, I added a little in the first, then in the next one I added a little bit more, then the same thing in the next one. After I was done doing that then I mixed it up. It was just harder to work with the colors.

 (Sorry about the pics, my camera wasn't working right with the light)

In the first picture, it looks okay, but the colors just wasn't coming out like how I wanted it too, the last color wasn't dark enough, I kept adding Sky Blue food coloring, and it just wasn't that blue I was hoping for.

In the second picture, you can see that things went wrong. I thought if I added a little bit of green to the darkest color, that it would help the blue darken.... I was wrong, then I started playing with it too much, started adding green's in all of them. I just took a deep breath and gave up. I only gave up for like 5 minutes. I went to the grocery store bought more butter & powdered sugar. I was pumped and started to make the frosting, and then it happened my hand mixer stopped working, I said "Nooo". I start to whip that frosting like it has never been whipped before, I was determined to get that Ombre Rose Swirl on the cake. I tried again, but this time I kind of made a game plan, and took the time to do it right this time. I measured the frosting out, I decided to Ombre 3 different tone's this time. I dabbed a little gel color for the lightest layer of frosting, mixed it in and then went on to the next one. You can check that out in my previous post; in "Dirty Ice...Stack & Then do The Ombre Rose Swirl".

Overall I was super happy to finally try this new trend. Ombre Cake, and Rose Swirls. I was in love, I couldn't stop staring at the cake. The best part was to hear my friends and family say how " pretty & beautiful it was and that it was moist".

BEAUTIFUL

We don't want to overload on sugar right?? Once a week, we will be having a wind down Wednesday and; "Relaxing our sweet tooth". I am going to talk about savory dishes, and I will be cooking some dinner with you and sharing some recipes. See you on Wednesday!                                     

Dirty Ice...Stack & Then do The Ombre Rose Swirl

Finally! I have been waiting for this day, we are going to start off by making the Butter Cream Frosting, then fill in the layers & then dirty ice. Dirty Ice aka Crumb Coat is where we frost the cake, so we don't get crumbs all over the completed cake. You then put on more frosting and frost your cake. Since, we are doing Ombre Swirl Roses, I only did the crumb coating. You can use any type of frosting.

Classic Butter Cream Frosting (I had to Double the recipe)

4 Cups (2 lbs)- Powdered Sugar
1 1/2 Cup- Butter (room temperature)
2-3 TBS- Whipping Cream
1-2 tsp- Vanilla Extract- you can use (almond, lemon & coconut)

Start off, getting powdered sugar, and butter blend, until it all comes together. Mix the butter and powdered sugar until it is crumbly. As we are mixing it, we want to gradually add the Whipping Cream. Mix all the ingredients until it comes together. Once the frosting comes together, add in your Vanilla extract. Mix it in.

**If your frosting is too stiff, you can add more whipping cream, if it is too thin, then you can mix in more powdered sugar.

What We will need:

• Cake Board 8 inch or 9 inch.
• Offset Spatula
• Butter Cream Frosting
• Cake Layers
• Tall Glass
• Piping Bag's ( I used 3, for the Rose Swirls)
• Wilton #2D Tip 
• 3 Mixing Bowls ( to mix in our colors, for the Ombre effect)
• Wilton Food Get Coloring (I Chose Blue, I used 2 different types of Blue)

This is how we do it.

• Gather all your items
• Make your Butter Cream
• Dirty Ice your cake
• Divide your frosting in to 3 bowls; in your first bowl which will be the lightest color add a little bit more frosting, than the rest of the bowls.
• Start adding in your color's, we will start from lightest to darkest. Add a little bit of gel coloring at a time. A toothpick dip of food coloring is more than you think.
• Cut the end of your piping bag, and put in your tip. Then grab your glass and place your piping bag inside. This is a trick that I used to keep it clean, while I add my frosting inside the bag.
• Now let's start Rose Ombre'ing.
• Dab & Swirl around... Wallah you have a rose.

Let's Dirty Ice
Okay here we go. Grab your cake board ( I used a 9 inch board), and slab a little bit of frosting on it. This holds our cake in place, while we frost so it doesn't move all over the place.
Put your first layer, which is your lightest color. Then add some frosting, and spread it around. If it goes over the edge it is alright. We will use that to spread on the outer layers of the cake. Keep stack and adding frosting until, your layers are complete. Put a cup of frosting on top of the cake and frost around the edge and turn your cake as you are doing it.

Final results, from Crumb/or Dirty Icing the cake.

**It's easier if you have a Lazy Susan. It's like a cake stand on wheels.

** You can also place parchment paper's on the bottom layer's of your cake, it catches all the frosting that falls off your cake. Once you are finished frosting you just remove the parchment paper gently.

It's time to start mixing the colors. Choose the color you desire . I used two different tones of blue. (It made it easier to tone out the blues.)

Ombre* Ombre* Ombre

I divided the frosting into 3 bowls. I added 1 1/2 cups of frosting in 2 bowls, in one of the bowls I added about 2 1/4 cup's of frosting because that is going to be our lightest color.

This is a technique I use, to put the frosting in the piping bag. I grabbed a nice tall glass. Cut the end of the piping bag, enough to fit the tip in. Start adding the frosting & it's time to Rose Swirl.

Rose Swirls: Dab, Swirl, Twirl

I started with the darkest blue, then the next blue & the lightest blue, was the third and top of the cake.

Wait we need to see what our Ombre Cake looks like when we cut into it. I know it's too pretty, but we have to try this; delicious moist pink cake... yummy I can't wait.

We don't want to overload on sugar right?? Once a week, we will be having a wind down Wednesday and; "Relaxing our sweet tooth". I am going to talk about savory dishes, and I will be cooking some dinner with you and sharing some recipes. See you on Wednesday!