My Baby Girl turned 7 a month ago. I can’t believe that I’ve been a mom for 7 years.
My Little Cup has brought me much joy and happiness while at the same time has completely drove me nuts.
She is my little muse and my ray of sunshine.
My Little Cup seems to make all things better.
So when she asked for a special cake for her birthday, I obliged. She wanted a Pink and Purple cake and I had to make it pretty for her.
This was the second petal cake I’ve made. The technique is easy, but it’s also time consuming. Plan on it taking an hour to frost your cake.
The cake ended up being a three layer cake, just like the frosting, purple, pink and white layers.
Her cake last year had THREE pounds of powdered sugar in the frosting so this year I decided to put a layer of lemon curd and a layer of strawberry jam on the inside.
It turned out great!
She had a great Birthday Party at a local ice cream shop. All the girls were dressed up in fancy dresses and enjoyed ice cream parfaits and chocolate fondue.
They got to decorate their plates, plastic forks and cups with stickers a la Fancy Nancy!
They had a great time!
I am so proud of you, Little Bug.
I can’t wait until your next birthday! (Just don’t grow up too quickly!)
- For the Cake
- 2 1/4 cups cake flour (9 ounces), plus more for dusting the pans
- 1 cup whole milk, at room temperature
- 6 large egg whites (3/4 cup), at room temperature
- 2 teaspoons almond extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar (12 1/4 ounces)
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon table salt
- 12 tablespoons unsalted butter (1 1/2 sticks), softened but still cool
- For the Frosting
- 1 1/2 cups unsalted butter, softened
- 2 pounds (4 cups) powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 2 – 4 tablespoons milk
- [url href=”http://amzn.to/2joBXKF” target=”_blank”]food coloring[/url]
- Set oven rack in middle position. Preheat oven to 350F degrees. Spray three 8-inch round cake pans with nonstick cooking spray and line the bottoms with parchment or waxed paper rounds. Spray the paper rounds, dust the pans with flour, and invert pans and rap sharply to remove excess flour.
- Mix the milk, egg whites, and extracts into 2-cup glass measure, and mix with fork until blended.
- Mix the cake flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in bowl of electric mixer at slow speed. Add butter and continue beating at slow speed until mixture resembles moist crumbs, with no powdery streaks remaining.
- Add all but 1/2 cup of milk mixture to crumbs and beat at medium speed (or high speed if using handheld mixer) for 1 1/2 minutes. Then add remaining 1/2 cup of milk mixture and beat 30 seconds more. Stop mixer and scrape sides of bowl.
- Return mixer to medium (or high) speed and beat 20 seconds longer. Divide batter evenly between the prepared cake pans; using rubber spatula, spread batter to pan walls and smooth tops. Arrange pans at least 3 inches from the oven walls and 3 inches apart.
- Bake until thin skewer or toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 23 to 25 minutes. Let cakes rest in pans for 3 minutes. Loosen from sides of pans with a knife, if necessary, and invert onto wire racks. Reinvert onto additional wire racks. Let cool completely, about 1 1/2 hours.
- Beat the butter in a a stand up mixer until smooth and fluffy – about 5 minutes. Gradually add in the powdered sugar and milk until desired consistancy is reached. Add the vanilla and salt ane whip for 5 minutes.
- Divide the frosting into 4 bowls. Color one pink and another one purple. Place the frosting into piping bags with a [url href=”http://amzn.to/2joDY9y” target=”_blank”]round tip[/url]. Leave two white- one for the crumb coat and one for piping.
- Layer the cakes with a thin layer of frosting between each layer and crumb coat the cake with white icing.
- Add half-inch dots to the cake from the bottom to the top. Use the back of a spoon to drag the frosting dot to the right creating that petal. Pipe another column of frosting dots and press down again. Continue this all around the cake. Then continue on the top of the cake.
- Add Candles and sing Happy Birthday!
- [url href=”undefined”][img src=”https://pintsizedbaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/How-to-Petal-Birthday-Cake-Collage.jpg” width=”600″ height=”1438″ class=”aligncenter size-full” title=”How-to Petal Birthday Cake Collage” alt=”Creating a Petal Birthday cake is rather easy.”][/url]
