Hello Kitty Cake: A Chocolate Cake Amongst Chocolate Mousse Too Buttercream Frosting.

This past times weekend was my daughter's birthday . Her exclusively asking was that she wanted a Hello Kitty cake. I receive got been making her birthday cakes for the past times 3 birthdays now. I made an Elsa cake the final yr too a Barbie doll cake the yr earlier that. This year, due to fourth dimension constraints, I didn't wish to brand a 3-D cake too hence decided to brand a Hello Kitty aspect upwardly cake.

My immature lady loves chocolate too so exercise bulk of the kids. I hence decided to brand a unproblematic chocolate cake filled amongst chocolate mousse.

I chose unproblematic buttercream frosting equally I needed the frosting to move white to brand the face. I used the Wilton Hello Kitty pan to brand the cake. I got the chocolate recipe from a friend at i of the nutrient groups too the buttercream recipe was from here. I am thankful to Ms. Sarita Bhat for sharing her recipe amongst me. This is past times far the easiest chocolate cake recipe too it tasted pretty good. I was dreading pipage the entire cake using a star-tip but I constitute it to move a breeze due to the first-class fluffy, creamy frosting. This was the best frosting I receive got ever made!! It was slow to function with, without hurting my hands , firmed upwardly chop-chop upon placing inwards the fridge too didn't collapse later the cake was placed at room temperature. This was definitely i of the best cakes I receive got made inwards damage of remain too convenience. As for perfection, I receive got never claimed to move a bakery too volition never claim to move one! I am only a Working Mom who tries to brand her children happy too a tiny fighting healthier!

Servings: 12-15 ( 2inches x iv inches piece).

Ingredients:

All role flour: 1 & 3/4 cups
Granulated sugar: 2 cups
Cocoa pulverization ( unsweetened): 3/4 loving cup ( I used Hershey's)
Baking powder: 1 & 1/2 tsp
Baking soda: 1 & 1/2 tsp
Salt: 1/2 tsp
Eggs: 2, large
Coffee/ warm water: 1 cup
Milk: 1 loving cup ( at room temperature)
Canola oil: 1/2 loving cup ( whatever cooking petroleum tin move used).
Vanilla essence: 1 & 1/2 tsp

For the frosting: ( makes iv cups)

Powdered sugar: iv cups
Unsalted butter: 1 cup
Vanilla essence: 2 tsp
Milk/ water: 2-3 tbsp
Salt: a pinch

For the Chocolate mousse:

Semisweet chocolate chips: 1 cup
Heavy cream/ whipping cream: 1 cup

Method:

Buttercream Frosting:

Sift the powdered saccharide too proceed ready.

Add the butter to the mixer bowl too cream the butter on medium setting until smooth.

Add vanilla essence too tabular array salt too trounce for a minute. Add the powdered saccharide 1/2 loving cup at a time, beating for 10 seconds later each addition.

Add milk/water 1 tbsp at a time, beating for few seconds until you lot receive got reached the desired consistency.

Take 1/2 loving cup of the frosting inwards 2 bowls. Add ruby-red color to i too dark to the other. Mix well. Take 1/4 loving cup frosting too teach inwards pinkish ( optional). I used this for the centre of the bow equally I had unopen to leftover pinkish frosting. You don't receive got to exercise it.

Add it to the pipage bags too proceed ready. Prepare the pipage handbag amongst the white frosting equally well.

You tin refrigerate the frosting until ready to use.

I made the olfactory organ using xanthous candies that I had leftover from a cookie-decorating kit.

The Chocolate mousse:

Take the chocolate chips inwards oestrus proof bowl.Heat the cream on the stove move past times until it bubbles. Add this to the bowl containing the chocolate chips too stir good until all the chocolate had melted . The oestrus from the cream volition melt the chocolate.
Let it cool downwards for until it comes to the desired consistency. I commonly brand mine ahead of fourth dimension too exit it inwards the refrigerator.

You could proceed it inwards the fridge for a yoke of hours.

The cake board:

Place the Hello kitty pan upside downwards on a large field of cardboard. Trace the outline of the pan on the cardboard. Cut the cardboard into that shape. Cover it completely amongst aluminum foil or whatever other variety of fancy foil/ cloth that is waterproof. Keep aside.

The cake:

Preheat the oven to 350 deg F.

Grease the Hello Kitty pan too proceed ready. Cover the bottom of the pan amongst parchment paper.

Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, cocoa pulverization too salt. Mix the granulated saccharide to this mixture.

In a dissever bowl, whip the eggs. Then add together the canola oil, vanilla essence, milk too coffee/water.

Add the moisture ingredients to the dry out ingredients. Mix well. The batter volition move pretty thin. Pour the batter into the prepared pan.

Place the pan on the middle rack of the oven too bake at 350 deg F for thirty mins or until the toothpick comes out construct clean when inserted into the centre of the cake.

Take the pan out of the oven too let the cake cool inwards the pan for 15-30 mins earlier upturning it on a cake rack. Let it cool completely ( atleast 2-3 hours) earlier trying to frost it.

Level the cake earlier frosting.

Apply a footling frosting to the centre of the prepared cake board too identify the leveled side of the cake on the cake board.

Using a serrated knife/ cake leveler or floss, cutting the cake inwards the middle so equally to teach 2 equal layers. Keep the move past times layer aside.

Spread the chocolate mouse on move past times of bottom layer so that it forms a filling for the cake.

Place the other one-half of the cake on move past times of the mousse.

Crumb Coating:

Apply a sparse coat of the white buttercream frosting too crumb-coat the cake. Place it inwards the fridge for atleast a yoke of hours ( or overnight) earlier decorating the cake.

Decorating the cake:

Take the cake out of the refrigerator. Using a toothpick, roughly outline the bow, the eyes, olfactory organ too whiskers.

Using an offset spatula too white frosting, frost the sides too smoothen it.

Using Wilton tip # 3 describe the whiskers of the kitty amongst dark frosting. Also fill upwardly up the eyes too brand the outline of the bow.

Using the star tip # xviii an ruby-red buttercream frosting, fill upwardly inwards the bow, except the centre of the flares of the bow which I receive got colored pink.

Now using the star tip #18 too the white frosting fill upwardly inwards the residual of the move past times of the cake too the bottom employment on the cake board. I purposely didn't fill upwardly inwards the sides equally firstly, I didn't wish equally good much frosting too secondly, the stars tend to give into gravity too collapse.

I wrote the birthday message using the dark frosting too tip # 3, on the cake board.

I am bringing this cake to my friends at Throwback Thursday # 29, Angie's Fiesta Fri # 110 ,where co-hosts this calendar week are my 2 honey friends Jhuls @ The Not So Creative Cook too Apsara @ Eating Well Diary. I am also bringing this to Saucy Saturdays!

Cooking made easy:

If you lot are apprehensive virtually making cake from scratch, you lot could ever utilization a boxed mix too brand the cake. Of course, in that location is null similar home-made!

If you lot exercise non receive got the Wilton gel colors too exercise non wish to move bothered amongst preparing pipage bags amongst colored frosting, only purchase the Wilton ready-made frosting tubes that are available inwards a multifariousness of colors.
For the higher upwardly cake, you lot volition involve the following:
White Wilton frosting: 1 tube
Yellow Wilton frosting: 1 tube
Black Wilton frosting: 1 tube

Tip for good for you lot living:

The argue I similar to brand the desserts for my kids is because I tin command what ingredients become into it. Most store-bought cakes receive got high-fructose corn syrup inwards them too the frosting is oft made amongst shortening too non butter. My making desserts at home, I tin also select the marking of sweetness that they volition have.

One to a greater extent than of import tip I would similar to portion is that for birthday parties, proceed the cake small. While serving, cutting it into small/ sparse slices. Nobody actually eats the entire field of cake! It is the concept of the cake that most kids like. And of course, if anyone wants, you lot tin ever serve 2nd helpings!

Food for thought:

It is clear gain to sacrifice pleasance inwards lodge to avoid pain. Arthur Schopenhauer