This yesteryear weekend was my daughter's birthday . Her entirely asking was that she wanted a Hello Kitty cake. I receive got been making her birthday cakes for the yesteryear 3 birthdays now. I made an Elsa cake the concluding yr together with 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 together with hence decided to brand a Hello Kitty aspect upwardly cake.
My immature lady loves chocolate together with so practise bulk of the kids. I hence decided to brand a unproblematic chocolate cake filled amongst chocolate mousse.
Servings: 12-15 ( 2inches x four inches piece).
Ingredients:
All usage 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 ( whatsoever cooking crude oil tin live on used).
Vanilla essence: 1 & 1/2 tsp
For the frosting: ( makes four cups)
Powdered sugar: four 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 carbohydrate together with continue ready.
Add the butter to the mixer bowl together with cream the butter on medium setting until smooth.
Add vanilla essence together with tabular array salt together with crunch for a minute. Add the powdered carbohydrate 1/2 loving cup at a time, beating for 10 seconds afterward 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 ruddy color to i together with dark to the other. Mix well. Take 1/4 loving cup frosting together with larn far pinkish ( optional). I used this for the oculus of the bow every bit I had to a greater extent than or less leftover pinkish frosting. You don't receive got to practise it.
Add it to the pipe bags together with continue ready. Prepare the pipe handbag amongst the white frosting every bit 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 rut proof bowl.Heat the cream on the stove transcend until it bubbles. Add this to the bowl containing the chocolate chips together with stir good until all the chocolate had melted . The rut from the cream volition melt the chocolate.
Let it cool downward for until it comes to the desired consistency. I normally brand mine ahead of fourth dimension together with larn out it inwards the refrigerator.
You could continue it inwards the fridge for a yoke of hours.
The cake board:
Place the Hello kitty pan upside downward on a large spell of cardboard. Trace the outline of the pan on the cardboard. Cut the cardboard into that shape. Cover it completely amongst aluminum foil or whatsoever other variety of fancy foil/ fabric that is waterproof. Keep aside.
The cake:
Preheat the oven to 350 deg F.
Grease the Hello Kitty pan together with continue ready. Cover the bottom of the pan amongst parchment paper.
Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, cocoa pulverization together with salt. Mix the granulated carbohydrate to this mixture.
In a dissever bowl, whip the eggs. Then add together the canola oil, vanilla essence, milk together with coffee/water.
Add the moisture ingredients to the dry out ingredients. Mix well. The batter volition live on pretty thin. Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
Place the pan on the middle rack of the oven together with bake at 350 deg F for thirty mins or until the toothpick comes out construct clean when inserted into the oculus of the cake.
Take the pan out of the oven together with 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 oculus of the prepared cake board together with 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 every bit to larn 2 equal layers. Keep the transcend layer aside.
Spread the chocolate mouse on transcend of bottom layer so that it forms a filling for the cake.
Place the other one-half of the cake on transcend of the mousse.
Crumb Coating:
Apply a sparse coat of the white buttercream frosting together with 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 together with whiskers.
Using an offset spatula together with white frosting, frost the sides together with shine it.
Using Wilton tip # 3 describe the whiskers of the kitty amongst dark frosting. Also fill upwardly up the eyes together with brand the outline of the bow.
Using the star tip # eighteen an ruddy buttercream frosting, fill upwardly inwards the bow, except the oculus of the flares of the bow which I receive got colored pink.
Now using the star tip #18 together with the white frosting fill upwardly inwards the residual of the transcend of the cake together with the bottom work on the cake board. I purposely didn't fill upwardly inwards the sides every bit firstly, I didn't wish likewise much frosting together with secondly, the stars tend to give into gravity together with collapse.
I wrote the birthday message using the dark frosting together with 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 together with Apsara @ Eating Well Diary. I am also bringing this to Saucy Saturdays!
Cooking made easy:
If you lot are apprehensive most making cake from scratch, you lot could e'er usage a boxed mix together with brand the cake. Of course, in that location is nil similar home-made!
If you lot practise non receive got the Wilton gel colors together with practise non wish to live on bothered amongst preparing pipe bags amongst colored frosting, merely purchase the Wilton ready-made frosting tubes that are available inwards a diverseness of colors.
For the higher upwardly cake, you lot volition postulate the following:
White Wilton frosting: 1 tube
Yellow Wilton frosting: 1 tube
Black Wilton frosting: 1 tube
Tip for salubrious living:
The argue I similar to brand the desserts for my kids is because I tin command what ingredients larn into it. Most store-bought cakes receive got high-fructose corn syrup inwards them together with the frosting is oft made amongst shortening together with non butter. My making desserts at home, I tin also conduct the marking of sweetness that they volition have.
One to a greater extent than of import tip I would similar to percentage is that for birthday parties, continue the cake small. While serving, cutting it into small/ sparse slices. Nobody actually eats the entire spell of cake! It is the concept of the cake that most kids like. And of course, if anyone wants, you lot tin e'er serve 2d helpings!
Food for thought:
It is clear gain to sacrifice pleasance inwards social club to avoid pain. Arthur Schopenhauer