Sometimes I get asked to make cakes for friends and last year I made the Princess castle Cake for Burton’s friend Charlotte. This year her Mum asked if I would make another cake for her 5th birthday and the theme for the cake (and her brilliant party) was, of course, Frozen. Now, as I have said and shown on my blog in the past, I am not very good at using fondant icing so I knew immeditately that my cake would not be as amazing and ornate as some of the fantastic Frozen cakes that I have seen with awe the last 10 months or so.
My friend bought some Frozen figurines to help bring the cake to life (and because there is no way I could make some from fondant lol), so all I needed to make was a cake. I just decided to keep it simple and make a blue coloured sponge, layered with jam and then encased inside a white chocolate and cream cheese frosting, and then cover with edible stars and silver covered chocolate balls. The finished cake was not *quite* the design I had envisaged, but I think it looks like a snowball and the birthday girl was very happy with it. Yay!
- 250g unsalted butter
- 250g unsalted butter
- 250g caster sugar
- 250g caster sugar
- 250g sef raising flour
- 250g sef raising flour
- 5 eggs
- 5 eggs
- vanilla extract
- vanilla extract
- blue food colouring - I used sky blue by Doctor Oeketar
- blue food colouring - I used sky blue by Doctor Oeketar
- jam - any flavour of your choice
- jam - any flavour of your choice
- 1 tub of Betty Crocker vanilla flavoured buttercream
- 1 tub of Betty Crocker vanilla flavoured buttercream
- 150g white chocolate (I used a good quality white chocolate buttons one from Hadleigh Maid)
- 150g white chocolate (I used a good quality white chocolate buttons one from Hadleigh Maid)
- 100g cream cheese
- 100g cream cheese
- edible snowflakes and different sized silver covered chocolate balls (both available from Tesco)
- Pre heat the oven to 180oC / 160oC fan)
- Grease and line a 6 inch baking tin with a loose bottom
- Cream the butter and sugar together until pale and light (about 5 mins)
- Add a spoonful of the flour, 2 tps of vanilla extract and the eggs and beat well for a few minutes
- Fold in the flour and then add the blue food colouring - as much as you need to make a 'Frozen' blue coloured batter
- Pour half the batter in the tin and cook until risen and cooked right through - approx 35-40 minutes
- Once cooled, remove fron the tin, clean and re grease and line and add the remaining batter and cook again.
- Once the second sponge is cooked, allow to cool and then remove from the tin.
- Meanwhile to make the frosting:
- Melt the white chocolate and then add the buttercream and cream cheese and beat well
- Cut each sponge, when fully cooled, in half so you end up with 4 layers.
- Sandwich each one with jam and place onto your serving plate/board
- Cover all over with just enough of the frosting to cover the cake, and make it as smooth as possible
- Place the cake in the fridge for an hour to set
- Then cover the chilled cake with as much of the frosting that you need
- Decorate with the decorations
- Also add some of the frosting to the board/plate so that you can then stick the figurines into it to keep them in place.
- Add your candle and leave in the fridge until it is required.
As you can see I also made some cupcakes for the party bags (30 in total) and these were just regular vanilla flavoured cupcakes, topped with a blue coloured vanilla buttercream and an edible snowflake which she orderd from an online cake craft company. Typically, the frosting which I use for every cake I make decided not to set for the cupcakes, it may have been the food colouring??? Anyway, they were ok and tasted good which is the important thing. I did not actually get to sample the birthday cake itself, because it went home with the birthday girl but I am told it tasted great, which is good enough for me.
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Love this! And I have a little girl who would too. I imagine I will be making a Frozen cake for her birthday next year.
That looks great Jenny, I may well borrow that idea for A’s birthday in December
That is fantastic! I would never think of making a snowball for a frozen cake!
This looks so cute. Amy would love this so much. I never got around to making her Frozen cake this year, but I still have all the figurines and the ice slabs. Next year…
Wow Jenny, this looks amazing! Any Frozen fan would be over the moon with this birthday cake x #TastyTuesdays
wow that’s amazing x
Love the colour inside the cake! I’ve still not got round to watching frozen, but now I fancy watching it even more with a slice of this cake please!! #recipeoftheweek
The cake looks lovely, I bet the birthday girl was delighted.
Frozen cakes have been so popular this year. We had one for Miss C. Yours looks fantastic! x
That looks great! I like the idea of using the plastic figures!
You really are the cake queen. That is amazing.
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Oh my god! This is amazing!!! I’m still banking on coming to live with you!! 😉
Thank you SO much for linking up to #HomemadeThursday xx
Fabulous my niece loves Frozen and I am sure she would love this too!
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You are a genius, that is all! Thanks for linking up lady x
I love seeing all the different Frozen themed cakes that are around – this is so simple and effective I bet the birthday girl loved it Thanks for linking to #CelebrationCakesAndBakes.
It looks fab! x #tastytuesdays