Hi Guys!
Today was -44 C instead -50 C, still crazy cold tho, and the worst part is, it will be like this for the next 2 weeks. Gosh darn it. We will be returning to school and to work in freaking crazy cold days. Meh 🤪🤪🤪🤪
My husband is going back to work tomorrow, for 3 days at least, til NYE. He isn’t too happy with he temperature. I can imagine. I won’t want to go to work in this weather 🤪🤪🤪🤪
Funny how we had warmer year this year, and people said we were so lucky, as normally we would start seeing snow in October, but now we are hit by -40ish to -50ish C, and people are shocked too, because -50 C is so rare for us as well 😁😁😁😁
Anyhoo! Let’s talk about this following cake of mine.
Marble cake requested by my 8 yo. It was for his birthday and he requested it to be decorated as a game he likes on Roblox, Bee Swarm Simulator.
Should you have the chance to play the video on, you’d see how he decorated the cake himself 😍😍😍😍
Cake
2 1/4 c enriched flour
1 c sugar
1 tsp BP
1/2 tsp BSoda
A generous pinch of fine sea salt
3/4 c unsalted butter
3 eggs
2/3 c sour cream
1/2 c almond milk
1 tbsp vanilla essence
1 tbsp almond essence
1/4 c cocoa powder
Cream
1 c unsalted butter
3/4 c cocoa powder
Fine sea salt (you want to balance the sugar, so adding a generous pinch at a time until it’s delish balanced)
3 c icing sugar
Rich’s frozen whipping cream, defrosted, enough to make the cream reach spreading consistency
Chocolate collar
1 bag white choc chips
Yellow gel food coloring
Decorations
Gumpaste, food coloring, edible pen
Steps in the vid!
Marble Cake with Chocolate Buttercream
Ingredients
Marble Cake
- 2 1/4 c enriched flour
- 1 c sugar
- 1 tsp BP
- 1/2 tsp BSoda
- A generous pinch of fine sea salt
- 3/4 c unsalted butter
- 3 eggs
- 2/3 c sour cream
- 1/2 c almond milk
- 1 tbsp vanilla essence
- 1 tbsp almond essence
- 1/4 c cocoa powder
Buttercream
- 1 c unsalted butter
- 3/4 c cocoa powder
- Fine sea salt you want to balance the sugar, so adding a generous pinch at a time until it’s delish balanced
- 3 c icing sugar
- Rich’s frozen whipping cream defrosted, enough to make the cream reach spreading consistency
Chocolate Collar
- 1 bag white choc chips
- Yellow gel food coloring
Decorations
- Gumpaste food coloring, edible pen
Instructions
- Mix dry ingredients in a bowl
- Beat in butter, followed with eggs, and sour cream
- Cream in milk, followed with essences
- Divide batter into 2, mix in cocoa powder into one
- Drop batter into parchment lined pan and swirl into marble effect (8 inch pan, or 2 8 inch pan, or 3 6 inch pan – adjusting baking time)
- Bake on preheated 325 F until knife inserted in center comes out clean. Cool to room temperature before slicing in center into bottom and top cake (if using only 1 8 inch pan)
- Beat butter and cocoa, adding icing sugar a cup at a time and thin it with Rich's whipping cream until desired consistency (3 c icing sugar in total). Beat in salt now and then to balance the sweetness.
- Spread cream on a cake then top with another layer. Cover the whole cake with left over cream
- Melt chocolate and spread on clean bubble wrap, wait for 5 mins before attaching on side of cake. Chill til chocolate harden, then peel slowly and carefully
- Color gumpaste and make decoration that are related to the game and attach them on the cake or of chocolate collar by melting a little chocolate
