One Cake 2 Ways | Donut + Cotton Wool Candy Cake!

One of our goals this twelvemonth was to convey novel master copy content to in addition to hence we're excited today to innovate our newest column we're calling "One Cake Two Ways"!  As mentioned inward our trends shipping service before this week, at that spot are hence many cake makers out at that spot that guide hold inspired us this yesteryear year, from Australia's Katherine Sabbath in addition to Andy Bowdy to Vancouver's ain in addition to yesteryear contributor, Lyndsay Sung of Coco Cake Land. So "One Cake Two Ways" is inspired yesteryear those cake makers, in addition to a fun guide hold on interior pattern magazine articles you lot may read, where they guide hold a bed or a desk in addition to decorate it 2 unlike ways. We'll beingness doing the same, exclusively amongst cake! Focusing to a greater extent than on decorating. We'll brand a cake in addition to decorate or brand a variation of it 2 unlike versions!




Our kickoff shipping service we're calling the Donut + Cotton Candy Pastel Rainbow Cake! Six layers of rainbow coloured cake (using exclusively ane cake mix)! If you've e'er made a multi-layered cake of 5 or half dozen layers it commonly takes doubling a recipe or cake mix.With this cake, nosotros used smaller circumference pans in addition to thickness for each layer (like these), making it possible to all the same guide hold 5 or 6 layers using exclusively ane cake mix or recipe in addition to all the same plenty cake to serve a political party of 8 easily.

Let's guide hold a look! As you lot tin run into the primary share of the cake remains the same for both cake ideas, layers of vanilla cake inward pastel colours; a lemon/lime buttercream filling in addition to frosting in addition to topped amongst thick dripping chocolate ganache. Yum!  The toppings on the other manus are a fiddling unlike (obvs).  We topped ane amongst rainbow coloured mini cake donuts (each topped amongst unlike coloured icing in addition to sprinkles —royal icing in addition to chocolate ganache). The other amongst rainbow-coloured cotton wool candy floss.  Both sprinkled amongst edible gilt see sprinkles! Perfect for a birthday or fifty-fifty the upcoming St. Valentines!

Here's how to brand them!

For both cake ideas you'll purpose the same cake
1 white cake mix + cake mix ingredients (eggs, oil, water)
food colouring

Make the white cake mix yesteryear next the boxes directions or experience unloosen to brand your ain from scratch! Separate equal parts into 5 - 6 unlike bowls. Each worked out to only less than a loving cup inward each.  Add a unlike food colouring to each bowl. To larn the pastels similar nosotros did, nosotros used the next (all approximations):

Burgundy - twenty drops of pink, 2 drops of blue
Darker Pink - 10 drops of Red, 6 drops of pink
Light Pink - 1 driblet of pink
Orange - twenty drops of orange, fifteen drops of yellow
Yellow - 2 drops of yellow
Light aqua - 1-2 drops of blue, 1-2 drops of green

Since nosotros were baking smaller in addition to thinner cakes nosotros exclusively baked them for close 10-12 minutes at 350F degrees.  The cakes are ready when a toothpick comes create clean (obviously)!

For the Buttercream Frosting
1 loving cup butter
1/4 loving cup milk
2 cups of icing sugar
juice of ane 1/2 pocket-size meyer lemon and  1/2 lime or 1 tsp of vanilla
light-green in addition to bluish food colouring
gilt see sprinkles (optional)

Beat egg on high speed until the butter is rattling pale inward colour. Slowly add together the icing sugar, in addition to then milk in addition to juice of ane lemon.  Beat for 5 to 10 minutes until low-cal in addition to fluffy. Add food colouring (to colour) to brand a low-cal blue/green (aqua) colour.  If you lot don't guide hold green, you lot tin also larn the same outcome using 1 driblet of orangish in addition to 1 driblet of blue.

Start to create the cake yesteryear spreading icing betwixt each layer in addition to and then H2O ice the cake.  We iced ours inward 2 layers on the outside.  At this indicate you lot tin house your cake inward the refrigerator to move on making the adjacent day.

For the Ganache
1 loving cup of heavy cream
8 oz. Kingdom of Belgium chocolate chips

Heat the cream on the stove move yesteryear until you lot run into the cream coming to a simmer.  Remove off burner.  Add the chocolate in addition to comprehend amongst a lid.  Wait 5 minutes.  Then amongst a whisk, start whisking from the centre until good mixed.  It volition plough into a velvety ganache. Leave for 10 minutes before using. Note: The longer you lot larn out the ganache sit, the thicker it volition get, hence fourth dimension is of the essence.  If you lot want a thinner ganache topping, pour over almost instantly.  If you lot want it thicker similar ours, hold off a few minutes. Also if you lot stir it also much, it volition loose it's sheen.  Pour over the cake, e'er hence gently, in addition to and then slow force ganache over edges till it starts to drip downwards the sides.

Donut Cake

 To Make the Mini Donuts
1 Mini Donut Pan
1 cake mix + cake mix ingredients (eggs, oil, water)
food colouring

Make the white cake mix yesteryear next the boxes directions or experience unloosen to brand your ain from scratch! Separate equal parts into three or four unlike rainbow colours in addition to larn out ane bowl patch every bit good of your liking.  Drop random colours to brand corporation coloured donuts, or create rainbow ones every bit good yesteryear dropping three or four unlike colours into each donut shape in addition to and then add together a fleck of ane patch batter.  Mix gently using a toothpick to create a marbled effect.  Bake every bit directed.  Approx. 10 minutes at 350F.

Royal Icing for Donuts
(from Butter Baked Goods, published yesteryear Random House)

(Makes approx. four cups)

four cups icing sugar

1/4 loving cup meringue powder

6 to 8 tablespoons water

nutrient colouring 

costless sprinkles

In a stand upward mixer fitted amongst a whisk attachment, combine the icing saccharide in addition to meringue powder. Mix on medium speed until the meringue pulverization is evenly distributed throughout the icing sugar. 

2. Turn the mixer to depression in addition to slow add together the water, fiddling yesteryear little, until the icing reaches the desired consistency. 

3. Once the H2O is incorporated, shell the mixture on high to create roughly book in addition to lightness inward the icing.

 Ice the donuts every bit you lot wish.  Save a few to H2O ice using the chocolate ganache every bit well.  Sprinkle amongst costless sprinkles.

Top the cake amongst donuts inward a random pile, to a greater extent than sprinkles in addition to voila! Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Donut Pastel Rainbow Cake!

Cotton Candy Pastel Rainbow Cake
Follow the cake in addition to icing directions inward a higher house in addition to instead of piling donuts on top, add together a pile of rainbow coloured cotton wool candy. We used  a pre-packaged cotton wool candy nosotros tin larn hither locally called Fluffy Stuff Cotton Candy.  It comes already packaged inward blue, pink, light-green in addition to yellow.  Add a few sprinkles in addition to you're done!  Just hold upward certain to add together the cotton wool candy exclusively only before serving, every bit it does start to melt rather easily.

Happy cakes!

Extra Idea!  
See terminal icon for a cute in addition to random mini donut cotton wool candy sandwich idea! Just hold inward hear they would guide hold to hold upward made terminal infinitesimal to hold the cotton wool candy from melting!

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