Today is my Hubster’s birthday! So for Munchie Monday I am going to share the recipe for his birthday cake.
He is a special guy, so I made him a special cake. Per his request he wanted funfetti with lemon frosting. I made a funfetti cake from scratch using a recipe from Sally’s Baking Addiction, the Wilton Buttercream Frosting recipe using lemon juice instead of milk, lemon curd filling which you can find in the post from his birthday cake last year (just don’t look at the horrible pictures of the equally horribly decorated cake… #newwifefails), and I snuck some blackberry crack in with the filling as well.
finished product
I followed Sally’s recipe pretty closely. I doubled it to make a 9 x 13 cake. I used sour cream instead of yogurt, almond milk, and all white sugar because I didn’t want the cake to be darkened by my dark brown sugar. Also I substitute about a teaspoon of the vanilla for coconut to deepen the flavor of the cake a little.
finished product
I was really nervous about making this cake. I have attempted funfetti before. Evidently I used the wrong kind of sprinkles (nonpareils, the little colorful balls). The color bled off of them leaving my cupcakes looking like an art closet vomited in my oven. So if you want to turn a cake into a confetti cake by the oblong sprinkles. Trust me.
the beautiful inside!
that purupleish line is where the lemon curd and blackberry crack filling is.
This cake took a long time. I am not going to keep that a secret about that. BUT it wasn’t the cake itself, it was the decorating. The cake itself is super easy and quick. So simple actually that I was able to make it at 5 am. Yes, I was baking a cake and doing dishes at 5 in the morning. I am totally normal, right? In my defense Will had to get up at 4 for an early shift at Home Depot so I was already up.
close up of the garden.
more of the garden
I baked the cake on Thursday morning because I was nervous I would have the tie-dye project throw up problem again. I wanted to leave myself time to redo it if necessary. BUT I didn’t have to! Praise the Lord! I wish everyone could have eaten the cake fresh out of the oven. It was amazing! (I may have snuck a contraband chunk of glutinous cake that was stuck to the pan when I flipped it out…)
when we cut the layer in half to put in the filling. Look at that! Best funfetti cake I have ever seen!
Thursday night, I made the small, gluten-free top layer (this lemon cake recipe, with sprinkles added to make if confetti cake like the bottom layer). Thankfully, my friend Emma came over to hang out, and thanks to her engineering prowess we were able to split, fill, assemble the cake layers. We made the frosting and applied a crumb coat to the cake. We also made this crazy skillet cookie concoction that we proceeded to eat nearly all of… Will was lucky that there was some left for him. Cinnamon, chocolate, and butterscotch…. Gooey… warm…. I want some more now!
with the filling in, starting the crumb coat.
I covered the cake in plastic wrap and let the crumb coat harden. Then Friday night I applied the top coat of frosting and did the rest of the decorating.
For the Home Depot logo looking part I had made a template in Word using the Stencil font. Then I cut the letters out with a xacto knife to make a stencil. I set my stencil on top of the cake and traced with a toothpick little lines to follow. Then I piped along those lines with orange frosting. I wanted to fill the whole thing in orange like the actual Home Depot logo, but I accidentally made my frosting too stiff. Those letters took me 2 hours… 2 hours of hand cramps. If I get carpal tunnel from this cake, it was worth it.
it looks a little like the Home Depot label. =)
He’s so good at his job; I had to incorporate it some how.
For the garden, the dirt is crushed Oreos. The carrots and lettuces are just frosting. I used an open star tip for the lettuce. For the broccoli I used Laffy Taffy. I cut the Taffies into strips the split one end of each strip into two, piped some frosting on, and dipped them into green sprinkles. I didn’t think this up on my own; I followed this picture I found on Pinterest:
how to make the broccoli (this is not my photo… I found it on Pinterest)
Sorry for the length of this post…. Without further wordiness, here’s the recipe:
Funfetti From Scratch
Ingredients:
- 3 1/3 cup All-Purpose Flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 11 cup (2 sticks) Margarine, melted
- 2 cups Sugar
- 2 large Eggs
- 1/24 cup Sour Cream
- 1 1/2 cups Almond Milk
- 1 tablespoon + 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
- 1 teaspoon Coconut Extract (Almond Extract would be awesome! But I didn’t have any)
- 1 1/3 cup sprinkles
Lemon Curd Filling
Blackberry Crack Filling
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350F degrees. Generously spray a 9 x 13 baking pan.
- You will need two bowls and a mixing bowl. In a cereal sized bowl, melt your butter/margarine in the microwave and set aside.
- In a medium size mixing bowl, combine the dry ingredients (except for sugar): flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
- Pour your melted butter into a large mixing bowl and whisk in the sugars. You want to whisk it really well making sure that all the sugar gets incorporated well. To that add the eggs, sour cream, milk, and vanilla and coconut extracts until combined.
- Slowly add in dry ingredients whisking gently until no lumps remain.
- Add the sprinkles and gently stir them in so that their colors don’t start bleeding. Trust me- you want to avoid the tie-dye throw up affect.
- Pour batter into prepared cake pan. Bake for 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, and the cake springs back when lightly touched.
- Remove from oven. Cool in pan for 10-15 minutes. Then loosen the sides and turn your cake out. Allow to cool completely before frosting.
Lemon Buttercream Frosting
Ingredients:
- 1 cup Crisco
- 1 cup Butter (the real stuff)
- 1 1lb. bag of powdered sugar (more or less as needed)
- 4 tablespoons Lemon juice (it will probably take more than that)
Directions:
- Cream the Crisco and butter and then add the lemon juice.
- Slowly add the powdered sugar.
- Add more lemon juice and sugar till you reach your desired taste and consistency. Buttercream icing is a play it by ear type recipe not a science.
We Moved 