Number Cake

My boy had his birthday this week. He had a decently large political party a few days earlier. But in that location was no agency I was non having a cake cutting for him on the actual solar daytime of his birthday. I thus decided to brand a 3-D publish cake for him. My neighbor's son's birthday was a solar daytime afterwards my son's birthday. He turned six. I decided to brand a surprise publish cake for him too. So in that location I was wanting to brand 2 cakes. But was I close to bake 2 cakes??? No way!! I was going to bake ane cake too brand 2 cakes out of it! I e'er wanted to attempt out the zebra cake! I decided to brand a zebra cake inwards a 13x ix pan amongst the flavors of vanilla too chocolate. I so carved out the numbers out of it.The cakes were going to endure small. I did a publish 3 for my boy too a publish 6 for my neighbor.I got the ideas for the 3-D publish cakes from here.

I used a 8-inch cake board for each ane of them. I fifty-fifty managed to larn a few slices for us to eat! I similar mine without the icing.

Being that it was a week-day, I did non stimulate got likewise much fourth dimension on my hands. I decided to run store-bought frosting. Being that the store-bought frosting is thin, too I didn't stimulate got likewise much fourth dimension to harden the frosting inwards the fridge, it was a slightly messy affair. How produce I create it?? I decided to decorate the cake amongst M& Ms to stimulate got away the attending from the messy frosting job! Well it was a success. I iced my son's cake amongst vanilla frosting too since my neighbor's was the side past times side day, I mixed the residuum of the frosting amongst roughly cocoa pulverization too iced his # 6, left it inwards the freezer too side past times side solar daytime decorated it amongst M& Ms! That's why his cake was non melting!!

Overall, my boy was happy too my neighbor's boy was pleasantly surprised! All that ends well!

Servings: 4-6 per cake

Ingredients:

Flour: 1 1/2 cups
Baking powder: 1 tsp
Salt: 1/4 tsp
Sugar: 1 cup
Butter: 1 cup
Vanilla extract: 1 tsp
Eggs: 3 large
Milk :1/4 cup
Cocoa powder: 2 tbsp
Vanilla frosting: 1 1/2 cup
Chocolate frosting: 1 1/2 cup
M & Ms: 1 large packet

Method:

Preheat the oven to 350 deg F.

Grease the bottom exclusively of a 13x ix pan too move along aside.

Mix together flour, baking pulverization too tabular array salt too move along aside.

Add 2 tbsp cocoa pulverization to 1/4 loving cup milk at room temperature. Mix good too move along aside.

Using an electrical beater, cream carbohydrate too butter until smooth. Add eggs ane past times ane too shell well.Add vanilla too mix well. Now add together inwards the dry out ingredients petty at a time, mixing good inwards between. Be careful non to overmix!

Divide the batter as into 2 bowls. To ane bowl add together the cocoa pulverization too milk mixture. Mix well.

Now inwards the centre of the pan pour 2 tbsp of chocolate mixed batter. On the centre of this ane pour 2 tbsp of vanilla cake mix .

Now produce the same amongst the chocolate mixture again. Keep repeating this procedure until all the batter has been used up!

Place the pan on the centre rack of the oven too bake for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick tester comes out clean.

Take the cake out of the oven too permit it sit down inwards the pan for thirty mins before taking it out.

I placed a wooden cutting board on plough over of it too inverted the pan. Let the cake cool downward completely before attempting to carve out the numbers.

Since I had to brand both the publish iii too the publish six, I needed 3 circles. I used the lid of the Pillsbury frosting to carve out 3 circular pieces of the cake.

I so used a minor bottle cap to carve out the centre of the circular cake to brand a donut.

For the publish three, I cutting out 1/4 the of the circle from ane donut too 1/3 rd from the other. I directly seat the 2 pieces together on the cake board to brand publish 3.

For publish six, I cutting 1.5 inch broad too 6 inch long rectangle from the leftover cake. I attached it to the side of the donut to brand publish 6.

I so frosted the publish 3 amongst vanilla buttercream frosting too publish 6 amongst chocolate frosting.

I seat them inwards the refrigerator for 2-3 hours to draw of piece of work solid up.

My kids so helped me decorate it amongst lots of k & Ms!!

The publish cakes were ready!

Do attempt it. It is lots of fun! I am bringing this to Simple Supper Tuesday at hun whats for dinner.

Cooking made easy:

You could run store-bought patently circular cake too carve out the numbers from that.

You could run store-bought frosting to produce a crumb coating too so stick the k & Ms to larn inwards pretty!

Tip for salubrious living:

Serve too consume desserts inwards really minor portion. That ways you lot would stimulate got satisfied your sweetness molar without abusing your body.

Food for thought:

There are 2 ways of spreading light: to endure the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton