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Gemma's Bigger Bolder Baking Snow Globe Cake
Hi Bold Bakers! Today I am making a really special Snow Globe Cake. I will show you how
easy it is to make this beautiful, impressive cake. Also, today is another episode of my
Chocolicious series over on the Kin Community Channel, where I show you how to make Homemade
Chocolate Truffles for the holidays. So make sure you stick around to check that out.
So let's get baking!
So the base of our Snow Globe is a Coconut Cake. Today we are making a white cake which
I've never shown you before so this is a new one to add to your repertoire. And I want
to say a big thank you to Sarah who sent me a message on Facebook and told me about Snow
Globe Cakes because I had never heard of them before and I think it's such a great idea
especially for Christmas.
We are going to start out by measuring our wet and dry ingredients separately.
In a large jug, we are going to measure our milk and our egg whites. And then we're going to whisk
them together. In a separate bowl, add in your flour, baking powder and salt
and then mix these together.
Our next step is to cream together our butter and our sugar. You can do this on a stand
mixer or with a hand mixer. Cream the butter a little bit on its own first to loosen it
up and then add in the sugar. When your butter and sugar are well creamed, we're going to
add in the rest of our ingredients. I like to add vanilla extract to my Coconut Cake
because it gives it a really nice flavor. To this we're going to add half of our flour
mix and half of our egg mix. Then turn back on the machine and mix these two gently together.
It might seem like kind of an odd process but if you add flour in at once or the milk
in at once, your mix will curdle and it won't be good.
And then when that's just combined, add in the rest. At this stage you only want to gently
mix these to form a smooth batter. And there you have it, a beautiful cake mix that didn't
curdle. This is what it should look like. Oh man, I love cake mix.
Scrape around the sides of the bowl in case there are any lumps lurking around. Now we're
going to grease and line our cake tin. Now if you remember my little trick, save your
butter wrapper and that's what we're going to use to grease our tin with. And then just
line it with a round piece of parchment.
For this cake, I'm using a 6 inch cake tin but you can use an 8 or a 9.
I just like it small and high.
Then just pour in your lovely batter.
Bake your cake at 350 degrees F for around an hour/hour and ten minutes until it's firm
on top and a beautiful golden brown.
While your cake is baking, it's a really good time to make your frosting. I'm using my cream
cheese frosting recipe from my Red Velvet Cheesecake video. So make sure you go check
that out to see how to make it. For my Coconut Cake, I like to add a little bit of raspberry
jam between the layers. You can use a different jam or you can just leave it out.
I really hope you guys have been liking the edible gifts videos that I've been doing. I
release another one today to show you how to make a variety of Chocolate truffles over
on the Kin Community Channel as part of my Chocolicious series so make sure you go over
and check that out once this video is over. And if you haven't already done so, don't
forget to subscribe to my channel.
Our timer has gone off so let's check on our cake. And here's our cake, it looks so good.
It's firm on top and a beautiful golden brown. It smells yummy. We're going to leave it in
the tin, let it go a little bit cold, then turn it out onto a wire rack and let it go
completely cold.
When your cake is done, it's time to start icing it. I made this cake the day before
because it will be much easier to cut and to frost.
When it comes to cakes, I'm all about the filling so I'm going to put two layers in
this cake so you get more filling.
Ok, let's check out the inside of our cake and see how well it turned out. Look at that.
It's perfect. All those fine little crumbs. Beautiful.
You might notice that your cake is a little bit round on top. We want to even that out
so just get your knife and slice straight across it. We do this because when you frost
it, it gives it a much nicer, clean finish. Do not discard the leftover cake. It's a little
gift for the person who made it. Mmm.
Now that we've cut the layers in our cake, we're going to flip it over because this bottom
is now going to become the top so that when you frost it you've got a beautiful, clean finish.
Now we're going to spread jam and cream cheese frosting throughout the layers. Spread a generous
layer of jam and cream cheese frosting all around the cake. I just love the taste of
these flavors together. Then put your cake layer on top and continue adding more frosting
and jam. And then on with the top of the cake. Before we start frosting the rest of the cake,
I like to take a pastry brush and brush away any loose crumbs around the cake so they don't
get into your icing.
So now we're going to do our crumb layer. Now I've shown you this technique before in
the Red Velvet Cheesecake video and the purpose of it is to gather any loose crumbs around
the cake so when you put on your final layer of frosting you don't see any crumbs and it
has a beautiful finish. As you can see this is a really thin layer of frosting and it
looks pretty rough right now but we're going to pop it in the fridge and when we go to
frost on top of this it's going to look beautiful.
Our cake has been in the fridge for around 15 minutes and our crumb layer is nice and
stiff so we can go ahead and put the other layer of frosting on top of this. The best
way to frost a cake, I find, is to do it fast. Don't think too much about it and just go
for it and you'll always get the best results. You don't have to be too finicky about the
icing because we're actually going to cover this whole thing in coconut so you won't see
any little mistakes. Once you've frosted your whole cake, we're going to add on the coconut which
will eventually be the snow for your snow globe. Add a generous amount of coconut on
the top and the sides of your cake. And don't be afraid about making a mess. With your hands,
stick it to the side of the cake. You guys know I'm all about easy ways to decorate cakes
and it doesn't get much easier than adding coconut all over the top. It looks beautiful
and it doesn't matter what the frosting looks like underneath. I'm going to pop this into
the fridge and go ahead and get the rest of the decorations ready to finish off this beautiful
Snow Globe Cake.
So how am I going to turn this cake into a snow globe? Very simply, with some Christmas
decorations and a glass ball. This ball can be found in most hardware stores and florists.
Now just add your decorations to the top of the cake. You can use any of your holiday
favorites. Then just place your glass bowl on top. It's that easy!
This Snow Globe Cake looks beautiful but I want to finish it off with a little bit of
snow on top to make it look really magical. I like to add a bow for a splash of color.
This cake would make a great addition to any table on Christmas Day. It almost looks too
good to eat but I'm going to eat it anyways.
Make sure you head over to the Kin Community Channel where I show you how to make Homemade
Chocolate Truffles from scratch. Thank you so much for watching. And don't forget to
subscribe to my channel. I'll see you back here again next Thursday for more Bigger Bolder Baking.