Angelique's Sweets : Pink Ombre Cake

As you know it was my sister birthday last week. I made the marsmellow cake for her birthday party and I made made a pink ombre cake for a little gathering we had with the family. I will show you step by step how to make this really simple and pretty cake!

First I started off with 3 round vanilla cakes. I didn't make these as I didn't have time, but I bought them from my local bakery and they were still very nice. They were 18cm round cakes. I then made a batch of butter cream. The recipe is below.

What you will need:

250 grams butter, softened

5 cups of icing sugar sifted

2 teaspoons of vanilla

3 tablespoons full cream milk (I added 2 tablespoons because I was adding food colouring as well)

What to do:

1. Blend butter in a large bowl for 5 minutes, until light and fluffy.

2. Sift half the icing sugar into the butter mixture and blend

3. Add vanilla and blend

4. When vanilla is blended through the mixture, add milk

5. Blend milk until fully combined and then sift the rest of the icing sugar in the mixture

6.Blend for another 3-6 minutes.

I used the same round cake board I used for the marsmellow cake. First I place a bit of icing on the cake board. I then place one of the cakes on.

I then added a spoon full of icing on the top of the cake and spread it evenly with my metal spatula.

I then placed the other cake on top and then added some more of the butter cream and spread it evenly.

I then placed the last cake on top, so it was a three cake tier.

I then coated the cake with a layer of butter cream. I put a thin layer around the sides as it will be covered by the blobs of pink icing, and a thicker layer on the top of the cake so it covers the top completely.

Next it is time to dye your different variations of pink.

With you remaining butter cream, add a little pink food colouring and mix. Place a spoonful and a half of that colour in a bowl.

Then add a little more of the pink food colouring and mix. Place a spoonful and a half of that colour in a bowl aswell.

Do this until you have five variations of pink icing.

Place each colour in a zip lock bag.

Then fold each end of the ziplock bags and cut the same amount off each one so the blobs are the same size. Sorry I haven't cut the one down the bottom.

With the lightest colour pipe blobs all around the top of the cake.

Then with the back of a spoon smooth down each blob. Between each blob place your spoon in hot water as it will allow you to have a nicer finish.

Directly under the first layer, pipe the second lightest colour, and spread down. Place the blobs so it covers the rough bits down the bottom of your first line.

And then do the same with the two next colours, so you will have four colours on your cake. Clean your board with a spreading knife and a paper towel.