Hey guys it’s Ro, welcome to another Nerdy Nummies!
I got some requests from you guys to make the cake from Sleeping Beauty.
And technically there are 2 cakes in the movie, there is the cake that
the Fairy Godmothers make with magic, and the cake they make without magic.
Today we are gonna be making the cake they made without magic because
it is 15 layers!
This is gonna be the first time on Nerdy Nummies that
we make a cake with this many layers.
So today, we are gonna be making Sleeping Beauty’s Birthday Cake!
Let’s get started!
The recipe that we’re using today is from the Nerdy Nummies Cookbook,
it is the white cake recipe.
And today we are going to double it.
The things you will need, will be: 4 cups of all purpose flour,
3 cups of sugar, 10 eggs, we’re only gonna be using the whites.
2 sticks of butter, 3 cups of milk, 1 cup of shortening,
4 teaspoons of baking powder, 1/2 a teaspoon of salt,
4 teaspoons of vanilla extract, and 1/2 a teaspoon of almond extract.
For tools, you will need a bunch of mini cake pans, these ones are
a little bit smaller than 6 inches, and they came in a set of 5,
so I used 3 sets.
Over here I have got 15 mini cake pans!
6 cardboard cake boards, and it’s important to get the ones with the
holes in the middle.
A mini star cookie cutter, it’s a very little one, some pink candlesticks,
1 wooden dowel, and a circular wooden base, got it at the craft store,
and we drilled a hole right in the middle.
We’re gonna need some support for this cake, because, it’s 15 layers!
Now let’s put it all together!
The first thing that we’re gonna do is whisk together our dry ingredients,
we’ve got out flour, baking powder, and salty-salty!
We’re gonna mix them up until they’re well combined and then we’re
gonna set them off to the side.
Now we’re gonna cream together our butter and sugar, and our shortening.
And we’re gonna be doing it by hand, we’re gonna be using this hand
mixer, we’re not gonna be using any magic!
This is what your mixture should look like, now add all of our eggs,
we have a bunch of them, we’re gonna add them 2 at a time, and remember
you’re just gonna want the egg whites.
So crack 2 at a time, mix it up, repeat this until you’re all out of eggs.
All of our egg whites are mixed in and now add our vanilla extract
and our almond extract.
Mix together until it’s well combined.
We’ve got all of our ingredients ready, and now we’re gonna add our
dry ingredients and our milk, starting with our dry and ending with our dry.
So we’re gonna add our dry in 3 parts and our milk in half.
Mix in between each addition.
Our cake batter is ready and now we’re gonna fill our pans.
Grease them and fill them 2/3 full with batter.
For me that is 1-1/2 scoops, but whatever at home you have for a measurement
that will fill them 2/3 full.
All of our cakes are ready to bake, you’re gonna heat your oven to
350 degrees and bake for about 18-20 minutes.
It’s OK to bake all of them at the same time, and I’m gonna be baking them on
3 separate racks.
While our cakes are baking we’re gonna roll some fondant out and cut out a
bunch of little stars for decoration details.
Here, I’ve got a little bit of marshmallow fondant that we’ve colored yellow.
It’s on top of a piece of wax paper, so that it won’t stick to the surface.
I’ve got a little rolling pin, roll it out!
Cut out all of our little shapes, and pop ‘em out.
Once your cakes have baked and had plenty of time to cool, I’ve just stacked them up
over here, and I’ve got a turntable, some frosting, our little
cake boards, we’re gonna pop out the center, boop!
You’re gonna place one down right here in the middle, this is some
buttercream frosting, in a plastic baggie, I’m just gonna put a few little bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop!
Take one, and I’m gonna place him on top of the cake plate face down,
then frost.
It’s OK to be a little bit messy because we’re gonna be
icing the outside white as well.
Layer 2, just remember, you don’t need to level the cakes, because it’s the
cake from the movie, it’s a little wacky!
After you’ve got 3 cakes stacked, we’re gonna frost the top and the sides.
Da-dew!
Our first stack is done, we are gonna want to make 4 of these,
so we are gonna make 3 more stacks.
Here are all of our frosted cakes, we have 12 cakes frosted here in 4 sets,
we have 3 cakes leftover, now take 2 of them, and frost them white.
And then we have one more, which we’re gonna stack one of them, and frost
it blue for the top of the cake.
Our cakes are frosted, now we are going to assemble our birthday
cake here I’ve got the base and the dowel, I just put it right into the middle.
Remember, underneath we have our cake boards, and they have a hole in the middle,
so you’re gonna align the hole with the dowel, huh, and drop ‘em down!
We got our first stack on, now we’re gonna put in some straws for some
structural support, I’m gonna put 4 of them.
Lift the straw up just a little bit, cut, press them back down. After your straws are in we’re
ready for the second stack.
Again, we’re gonna use our straws, remember, 4 between each stack.
For the top 2 stacks we’re gonna be adding the double stack, so save
this one for second to last.
And the final top layer will be our blue.
To decorate, we have the little fondant stars that we cut out earlier,
our pink candles, I’ve cut them down to size so that they’re a little
bit shorter for the top of the cake.
We have buttercream frosting I’ve dyed this one yellow and blue.
The yellow frosting has a number 21 tip, which is a little star shape,
and the blue has a number 10.
Using the blue, I’m gonna be piping lines in between each of the cake layers
all the way up.
We’ve got all of our layers piped on, now I’m gonna pipe a very small
white layer around the bottom of the cake, just to make it look more finished.
And I’m gonna stick all of our little stars at the top, on the blue around
the outside and pipe some little details with our yellow frosting.
Lastly we’ll stick in the candles.
Ta-da!
Here is the Sleeping Beauty Themed Cake that we made today!
A big thank you to you guys for suggesting something Sleeping Beauty.
And, you guys, this is the first time on Nerdy Nummies we have ever made
a 15 layer cake, it’s pretty cool!
I also like this cake because if you’re having a birthday party, it is
maybe one of the perfect cakes for that, you can get so many slice for your friends!
I’ll be taking lots of pictures of this cake and posting it on
Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram.
And if you guys make this cake, please take a picture and send it to me,
I love seeing your baking creations!
I don’t know, I get a kick out of it, it makes my day!
And, if you have any other ideas for any other Nerdy Nummies, please let me know,
leave me a comment down below and I will do my best to make it happen!
OK, thanks again you guys, bye-bye!