Good morning! Today I thought I would pop in with a few pictures of a cake we made. As I mentioned last week I have been playing around with some cake decorating and I’ve got one more post after this one with some photos and then I am hoping to start trying to take some video tutorials of some of the basics. For this cake I just made a triple layer yellow cake with a boxed mix. And then I made my girls favorite chocolate frosting. They prefer chocolate frosting and my husband prefers a basic buttercream so I have been going back and forth between the two. I’ll make one with buttercream, and then the next with chocolate and then the next with buttercream – haha!
Here is the recipe for the frosting:
1 cup (2 sticks) of butter or margarine
1 1/3 cup Hershey’s cocoa powder
6 cups powdered sugar
2/3 cup milk (I actually don’t always end up using all the milk)
2 tsp vanilla extract
Soften the butter. Stir in cocoa. Alternately add powdered sugar and milk and beat on medium speed. Add more milk if needed (I don’t usually use even close to the amount of milk in the recipe). Stir in Vanilla. Makes about 4 cups of frosting.
The for the darker frosting I added in some DARK Hershey’s cocoa powder until it got quite a bit darker. I wish though I had also added in a bit more milk because it was really a bit stiffer than I liked.
To frost the cake with the lighter chocolate frosting I used a basic cake spatula and a cake scraper like this one. I also highly recommend getting a cake stand that rotates. I hadn’t purchased this yet when I made this cake but I have since and I LOVE it!
Once I had that base coat on I then used the frosting I had leftover and added some Dark Hershey’s Cocoa powder to it and put a small amount of that in a piping bag. I used a size #5 tip for the little polka dots and then filled the rest of the icing into a second piping bag and used 2D tip (a 1M would also work) to make little swirls on top and added these little Hershey’s bites snacks to pop on top of each swirl. And here is the cake stand I put it on.
Well, that’s it for today! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
Warmly, Jenni
