Ombre Cake

Over the weekend we celebrated two of our friends birthdays at a combined party. I had the esteemed honor of doing the cake. For a while now I have wanted to make an ombre cake for someone. I love to bake because I find it so relaxing and controlled. I spent all Friday afternoon and Saturday working on my masterpiece while watching reruns of Greys Anatomy on my ipad. I'll let you judge for yourself the cake outcome. It wasn't perfect but seeing as I am not a professional baker with professional tools, I think it was pretty awesome. And of course the birthday boy and girl loved it.

Since I was making a lot of cake I went with the box. YA YA I know...reminder not a professional baker and I don't have time to pretend to be one either.

I bought three boxes of vanilla cake mix. I made each of them on their own and then separated the batter into two equal parts. Once I had six bowls of equal batter I lined them up on the counter. Sorry I don't have a picture so you will have to use your imagination.

Once I had all six bowls I added green food coloring to each of them.

First bowl :10 Drops
Second bowl : 20 Drops
Third bowl : 30 Drops
Fourth bowl : 40 Drops
Fifth bowl : 50 Drops
Sixth bowl : 60 Drops

I took turns baking each one in my two cake pans. Once they were all cooled, I stacked them in the reverse order I had planned on for the final cake and put plastic wrap in between each layer. The deconstructed cake sat in the refrigerator over night.

In the morning I took the cake out of the fridge so it would be room temperature by the time it was served later that night. I made some home made butter cream frosting...3 full rations.

Frosting
2 sticks of butter
3 to 4 cups of powdered sugar
1 tablespoon of vanilla
3 tablespoons of heavy cream


I then started taking the cake apart from the top down and putting them onto a different plate one at a time frosting in between each of them.Once that was finished I frosted the entire outside.

Overall the cake was a huge success, even if it had its flaws. Here is a picture of the inside. It's a little sloppy but let's be honest cutting a cake always is.

Off to XCountry ski now! Gotta keep up with that fitness goal.