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

One of our goals this twelvemonth was to convey novel master copy content to in addition to therefore we're excited today to innovate our newest column we're calling "One Cake Two Ways"!  As mentioned inwards our trends post service before this week, at that topographic point are therefore many cake makers out at that topographic point that get got 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 accept on interior pattern magazine articles you lot may read, where they accept a bed or a desk in addition to decorate it 2 unlike ways. We'll existence doing the same, solely 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 get-go post service we're calling the Donut + Cotton Candy Pastel Rainbow Cake! Six layers of rainbow coloured cake (using solely i cake mix)! If you've e'er made a multi-layered cake of 5 or vi layers it unremarkably 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 get got 5 or 6 layers using solely i cake mix or recipe in addition to all the same plenty cake to serve a political party of 8 easily.

Let's accept a look! As you lot tin run into the principal part of the cake remains the same for both cake ideas, layers of vanilla cake inwards 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 picayune unlike (obvs).  We topped i 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 pump sprinkles! Perfect for a birthday or fifty-fifty the upcoming St. Valentines!

Here's how to brand them!

For both cake ideas you'll operate 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 liberate to brand your ain from scratch! Separate equal parts into 5 - 6 unlike bowls. Each worked out to only less than a loving cup inwards 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 drib 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 solely baked them for nigh 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 i 1/2 pocket-size meyer lemon and  1/2 lime or 1 tsp of vanilla
light-green in addition to blueish food colouring
gilt pump sprinkles (optional)

Beat egg on high speed until the butter is really pale inwards colour. Slowly add together the icing sugar, therefore milk in addition to juice of i 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 get got green, you lot tin also larn the same result using 1 drib of orangish in addition to 1 drib of blue.

Start to create the cake yesteryear spreading icing betwixt each layer in addition to therefore H2O ice the cake.  We iced ours inwards 2 layers on the outside.  At this indicate you lot tin house your cake inwards the refrigerator to hold 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 overstep 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 middle until good mixed.  It volition plow 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, therefore 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 therefore gently, in addition to therefore tardily 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 liberate to brand your ain from scratch! Separate equal parts into iii or iv unlike rainbow colours in addition to larn out i bowl acre every bit good of your liking.  Drop random colours to brand company coloured donuts, or create rainbow ones every bit good yesteryear dropping iii or iv unlike colours into each donut cast in addition to therefore add together a chip of i acre 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. iv cups)

iv cups icing sugar

1/4 loving cup meringue powder

6 to 8 tablespoons water

nutrient colouring 

liberate sprinkles

In a stand upwards mixer fitted amongst a whisk attachment, combine the icing carbohydrate 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 tardily add together the water, picayune yesteryear little, until the icing reaches the desired consistency. 

3. Once the H2O is incorporated, musical rhythm out the mixture on high to create roughly book in addition to lightness inwards 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 liberate sprinkles.

Top the cake amongst donuts inwards 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 inwards 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 inwards blue, pink, light-green in addition to yellow.  Add a few sprinkles in addition to you're done!  Just live on certain to add together the cotton wool candy solely 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 inwards hear they would get got to live on made terminal infinitesimal to hold the cotton wool candy from melting!