Yay! This is my 100th post. It has been 5 months since i started my food blog and in a blink of eyes i can't believe i'm already posting my 100th post. That's not bad for a working mom with two girls to look after..means, i still got all the time in the world to indulge in my passion for cooking and food. I baked this Frozen themed butter cake for my elder daughter Lekshana's 11th birthday. Like any other girls out there, my girls too are crazy about Disney's latest venture Frozen. The names of Elsa,Anna,Olaf,Steve,Sven and Hans always lingers in their mouth. Only God knows how many times they watched Frozen.
Mom decided to surprise the girls with 'Frozen" cake for Lekshana's birthday. The girls loves the edible sticker with their favourite Frozen characters. The moist, buttery cake topped with rich butter cream frosting just melt in the mouth and every bite are such a pleasure. The cake was tender and moist and the butter cream was so soft and smooth with the right amount of sweetness, just the way i wanted. The blue and white frosting brings out the colur of frozen and the cake itself comes in blue to the excitement of my girls. To add the excitement, here comes the ice crystals as a background. Overall, the girls are delighted so do their mom.
Ingredients
4 1/2 cups sifted cake flour
1 1/2 cup butter,room temperature
3 cups granulated white sugar
5 eggs, room temperature
1 1/2 cups milk,room temperature
2 tbsp baking powder
1 tbsp vanilla essence
1/2 tsp salt
Blue coluring(adjust to desire)
For Butter Cream
6-7 cups confectioners sugar
1 cup butter,room temperature
4 tbsp milk
2 tbsp vanilla essence
Pinch of salt
Blue coluring
For The Ice Crystal
1 cup granulated white sugar
1 cup water
Blue coluring(adjust to your desire)
Butter, to grease pan
To Assemble
Edible Frozen Themed Stickers
Methods
Preheat oven at 350'F or 190'C with the baking rack in the center of the oven. Grease a four 8'inch round cake pans with butter and dust with flour. Remove excess flour and line the bottom of the pan with parchment paper.
In a large bowl, sift together flour,salt and baking powder. Keep aside
Using an electric mixer, beat the butter and sugar till pale and fluffy for 4-5 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time, beating after each addition. Using a spatula, scrape the sides of the bowl.
Reduce speed to low and gradually add the flour mixture alternate with milk. Beginning and ending with flour with the additions and add blue coluring. Mix well with spatula.
Divide the batter evenly in the all 4 prepared cake pans and smooth the surface with spatula.
Bake in the oven for 25-28 minutes or till a skewer inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Remove from oven and cool on the pan for 5 minutes. Invert the cakes to cool completely on a wire rack.
Methods For Butter Cream
Using an electric mixer on a low speed, beat butter and confectioners sugar for 1-2 minutes. Switch to medium speed, and beat for another 3-4 minutes.
Add the vanilla essence,milk,sugar and blue coluring. Beat on high speed till the mixture smooth and fluffy. If the consistency is too thick, add 1 tbsp milk at a time to thin the mixture. If the mixture too thin, add 1 tbsp confectioners sugar to thicken it. Repeat the process till you get the desired consistency which easy to spread on the cake.
For Ice Crystals
Greased a 8'inch square pan with butter and set aside.
In a pot, over a medium flame, combine water and sugar. Stir. Heat for 8-10 minutes without further stirring, Remove from fire and add blue coluring. Pour the mixture onto a prepared pan and let it cool for 30 minutes. Using your hand break the sugar crystal into medium to large pieces.
To Assemble
Using a spatula mount a thin layer of butter cream on a first layer of the cake and spread evenly. Place another cake on the first butter creamed layered cake and repeat the process till the fourth cake. Spread a generous amount of butter cream on the final layer and cover all the sides of the cakes with butter cream. Smooth the surface and the sides evenly.
Fill a piping bag with your desired nozzle. Place the edible 'Frozen Themed' sticker on the center of the cake and pipe the butter cream as desired. Arrange the prepared ice crystals on the sides or as a background of the Frozen sticker to give that 'ice" impact on
Chill for 30 minutes, cut and serve
Notes
Be extra careful while preparing the sugar crystal. Heated sugar or caramel can cause serious burn.
You can prepare the sugar crystals the night before and store in fridge. Remove from fridge 10-15 minutes before assemble
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