Boo-meringue Cake - Bakerella

Boo-meringue Cake – Bakerella

I suppose it’s possible you’ll inform I truly favored the Boo-meringues I posted simply currently. I suggest they do scream cute. And so much so, that I wanted to position them on present in a extraordinarily sweet method.

So I made a small 6-inch layer cake for them to float on.

The recipe I used was this one for crimson velvet cupcakes. I merely switched out the color to purple. In hindsight, the darkish purple almost appears to be chocolate when baked. So subsequent time I would use crimson or inexperienced meals coloring for a pop of satisfying color inside.

The recipe will yield ample batter for 3 6 inch layers.

And in case you want to use a chocolate cake base. This chocolate cake recipe is completely good and likewise will yield three 6 inch layers.

Merely watch the baking time and take a look at. I baked these for about half-hour at 350 ranges F.

As quickly as baked and cooled, it’s time to frost and layer. I made two batches of buttercream (using this recipe). I tinted one batch a lightweight purple and the other a so much deeper shade of purple.

I used the sunshine purple to pipe and fill in between the three layers with ample reserved to pipe on the skin for some wispy streaks.

As quickly as assembled, I used the darker purple to make use of a crumb coat to the cake. Then I chilled the cake for about 20 minutes sooner than making use of the last word crumb-free layer of frosting.

When you want to make wispy streaks like these, it’s possible you’ll pipe random strains of the lighter purple frosting on the frosted cake after which use a software program like this one to create a clear edge.

Pretty in purple.

Now for the ghosts.

Use a number of of the frosting on the underside of each meringue to help join them to the cake. It is also attainable to insert a toothpick gently into the once more side of the meringue to help them maintain in place on the cake.

I really feel the cake is large cute on it’s private, nevertheless I had this idea to make a little bit of sign for the very best that claims BOO! I was going to design one on the computer, print it out, and so forth. Nonetheless then I found this card at Aim and decided to take a short reduce.

The beauty of using a card like that’s that the paper stock is thicker and the print top quality is so much higher than coming off of my always-almost-out-of-ink printer.

This possibly would not have been my very good design for this cake, nevertheless the colors and measurement went together with it pretty utterly… so homerun!

I merely reduce out the letters from the cardboard and related two paper straws to the once more to make a Boo-tiful little cake topper sign.