I made this car shaped cake last Saturday for my son Shayaan’s 2nd birthday…
Ingredients:
For Trio Marble Cake:
2 cups self raising flour
125 gm butter, softened
3/4 cup caster sugar
2 eggs
3/4 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2-2 tbsp cocoa powder, sifted
1 tbsp milk, extra
pink food colouring
For Vanilla Buttercream Frosting:
1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
3-4 cups icing sugar/ confectioner’s sugar
1 tbsp vanilla extract
3-4 tbsp milk
Ready to roll fondant
food colours
Preparation:
For Trio Marble Cake:
- Preheat oven to 180 degree celcius. Grease a cake tin with butter and dust it with flour or spray with a cooking spray.. (Here I used a rectangular cake tin and a small square cake tin).
- In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add the eggs and vanilla extract and beat well.
- Fold in the flour alternately with the milk.
- Divide the prepared mixture into 3 bowls ; add the cocoa powder and 1 tbsp milk to one and the pink food colouring to another.
- Place the alternate spoonfuls of mixture into the prepared cake tins. Use a knife to swirl the mixture into a marble effect.
- Bake in a preheated oven for 35-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack…
For Vanilla Buttercream Frosting:
- In a bowl, add the butter and beat until smooth and creamy at medium speed using electric mixer.
- Add 3 cups icing sugar/ confectioner’s sugar , little at a time on low speed,until it mixes well with the butter.
- Then increase the speed to medium and add vanilla extract and milk and beat until smooth and creamy…
- To prepare this car shaped cake, I baked 2 cakes – one rectangular cake and a small square cake using this batter . Then allow the cakes to cool completely and level the top and sides of each cake with a knife.
- To assemble the cake, place the rectangular cake on a serving plate or cake stand and place small square cake on top of it…
- Cover the cake with the vanilla buttercream frosting..
- Then I covered the cake with Ready-to-Roll Icing / fondant . I used blue colour for the car, black and white fondants for wheels , lights and windows…
That is a lot of effort… love it… looks so good!