Happy Second Birthday Dearest Squid!
I love birthdays, presents, hugs, golden excuse to bake things otherwise shelved indefinitely... Like this! I've been absolutely dying to make this cake since I first saw it, but when, why? I really needed a good excuse for such a huge and colourful beast of a cake.
I admit it, I used mix, I trolleyed into town and bought ye olde Duncan Hines white cake mixes, just because I wanted really bright colours and doubted my own white cake would be quite so bleached. Another trip to the purveyors of all things bright and glittery (hobbycraft!) and I was six tubs of lurid food colouring gel better off.
The cake was easy enough to make... mix the mix, weigh and divide by three, add the food colouring and bake in 20cm tins. Each mix made three thin 20cm cakes, perfect! a normal thickness cake would have needed planning permission before frosting and stacking. As it was I stuck it with many wooden skewers to keep it together, just in case.
The cream cheese frosting (yes, again) is from Nigella this time and I will never stray again. It went on, stayed on and tasted good. I layered it with apricot cake glaze which gave it a nice sweet/tart flavour.
The cake tasted pretty good, much better than the amount of colouring would have you believe it could, it also kept well, after a few days in the fridge it still tasted really nice (that'll be the huge amount of e numbers I guess *sigh*) and wasnt stale. Every last bit was eaten and I'd definately do it again, lol, just not for a while.
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