Real Birthday Cake

Birthday Cake

 

 

It that time of year again, another birthday. What to do, what to do. How about keeping it real this year? Yeah, that sounds like a plan, ready, set, bake!

 

After working 10 hours I'm not about to come home and bake from scratch. So I picked up a box of cherry chip and a box of chocolate cake mix.

 

After getting my chocolate all mixed together, I remembered that I was being lazy.

 

I have a stand mixer. So I mixed the cherry chip together, so easy. I don't know how I lived for 28 years without one. No wonder my arms are so ripped, its from all the hand mixing.

 

I baked the cakes in 8 inch rounds, since they are thicker, you'll have to let them cook a little longer. I think these were about 40-45 minutes. Just watch them.

 

After they cooled, I used a cake leveler to cut off the tops. Not even kidding, this is the best 3 dollars I've ever spent. 

 

I set the cake cutter to split my cake in half.

I used a homemade chocolate buttercream. I just put down a cherry chip cake and frosted it.

 



 

I find it useful to have an additional cake board for moving your cake pieces. They are not that think and I feel like you could break them pretty easy. I just layer this cake up with the cherry chip and chocolate with the chocolate buttercream in between layers. Then I frosted the entire cake in chocolate buttercream. I used some vanilla buttercream to pipe on my birthday wishes. Then of course used sprinkles and edible glitter, because what cake it complete without that?

 

There you have it. A down to earth delicious birthday cake.

This just proves you can be a lazy baker!!

meow go rock someone's world with your mad baking skills.