Mardi Gras Cake
This Mardi Gras cake is delicious and so easy to make. Even if you're a beginner when it comes to cake decorating, you'll find this tutorial simple and achievable!
Ingredients
White cake
- 2 boxes of white cake mix
- 8 large Egg whites
- 2 ½ Cups water
- 1 Cup canola oil
Vanilla Frosting
- 3 Cups unsalted butter softened
- 6 Cups powdered sugar
- 5 tablespoon heavy whipping cream
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
Cake directions
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Preheat oven to 350 and spray cake pans with non-stick baking spray
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Using a hand mixer and large bowl, beat all cake ingredients until combined and smooth
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Divide the cake batter into the three cake pans
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Place into the oven and back for 28-32 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean
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Allow to cool completely
Building the Cake directions :
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Place one cake layer onto the cake board and cut the dome off the cake to make an even layer
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Repeat step with other two layers
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Scoop 3 C of frosting into one bowl and add in a few drops of purple.
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Mix until combined
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Scoop 3 C of frosting into the second bowl and add in a few drops of green. Mix until combined.
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Using the remaining frosting, mix in a few drops of gold gel food coloring and mix until combined.
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Scoop 1 C of purple frosting onto the bottom layer and spread evenly
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Place the second cake layer on top
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Spread 1 C of green frosting on top and smooth evenly
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Place the last layer of cake on top
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Smooth evenly any frosting sticking out of the sides
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Scoop remaining frostings into their own bags
Decorating directions
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Using the Purple frosting, pipe a row going from top to bottom of dots onto the side of your crumb coated cake. Try and keep the dots similar in size and in a straight line.
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Use the angled spatula to smush the dots.
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Hold the spatula horizontally and apply pressure to the first dot.
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Press hard enough so that the dot smushes down, but not so hard that it loses its shape. When you reach the crumb coat, pull the spatula away to the side, smearing the dot across the surface of the cake.
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Repeat down the line until all of the dots have been smeared.
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Pipe another row of dots using the green frosting so that they overlap the first row of smeared dots.
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Repeat the smearing technique with the gold frosting
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For the final row, you can leave off at your last smear, or pipe a row of dots and leave them "un-smeared".
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Repeat steps going in a circular pattern on the top of the cake
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Place in the fridge overnight to allow frosting to harden before enjoying!