Thumpaty thump thump.....
Here's an Easy winter cake that will make your kids smile!
To make this cake, I used an 8" and a 6" round pan (I think, it doesn't have to be perfect) and a small 6" or 8" square pan.
Trim a bit off the top of the smaller round cake (snowman's head) so that his hat sits better.
After that, simply stack the smaller round cake above the larger round cake.
Cut the bottom 1/4 of the square cake off and then cut that in half, so that you have 2 equal parts to use as the brim of his hat:
Ice the cake with a pure white frosting, I used a Seven Minute Frosting which can also be called Boiled Icing:
Boiled Icing
2 Egg
Whites
1 Cup Sugar
1/3 Cup
Water
¼ tsp Cream
of Tartar
Dash of
salt
¼ tsp
vanilla
1. In a separate bowl, beat egg whites until very stiff peaks.
2. In a sauce pan, boil sugar, water, cream of tartar and salt
until clear and completely dissolved.
3. Slowly drizzle clear sugar mixture into eggs while beating
continuously until completely combined.
4. Add ¼ tsp of vanilla.
I sprinkled Oreo cookie crumbs onto the hat to make it look black and added candies to make the eyes, nose and mouth. I used blue chocolate Easy Melts for the buttons and red shoestring liquorice for his bow tie.
I added a little extra icing at the bottom of the cake board and sprinkled it with coconut to look like snow.
I also found snowflake sprinkles at the Bulk Barn which added a nice touch.
To make the large snowflakes, use Royal Icing and with a small piping tip, pipe snowflake shapes onto parchment paper and allow to dry. You can just freehand snowflakes so that they are all a little different, just as snowflakes are or, you can lay parchment paper over a snowflake image and trace it with the royal icing.
Make extras because they are very fragile and some will surely break.
I love snowflakes!
