If you are making your LO's smash cake

[carawestt]

and/or the cake for their birthday party. What flavor cake and what kind of icing are you planning?

[muppetinma]

Probably doing chocolate cake with white buttercream.

[mala]

For a smash cake I would probably do just a vanilla/white/yellow cake & frosting. Maybe a berry cake or frosting, but nothing outrageous, no chocolate, butterscotch, caramel or anything like that.

[carawestt]

Feb 25, 2013 17:24:36 GMT -5 muppetinma said:

Probably doing chocolate cake with white buttercream.

I'm going sound like such a cake baking newb but is butter frosting the same as buttetcream? It's all I see in my cookbook.

[carawestt]

Feb 25, 2013 17:26:44 GMT -5 mala said:

For a smash cake I would probably do just a vanilla/white/yellow cake & frosting. Maybe a berry cake or frosting, but nothing outrageous, no chocolate, butterscotch, caramel or anything like that.

That's what I'm thinking too. I don't want him to be on sugar overload. I'm planning white cake but not sure which frosting.

[mala]

Feb 25, 2013 17:26:56 GMT -5 carawestt said:

Feb 25, 2013 17:24:36 GMT -5 muppetinma said:

Probably doing chocolate cake with white buttercream.

I'm going sound like such a cake baking newb but is butter frosting the same as buttetcream? It's all I see in my cookbook.

Probably. There are several different subcategories to buttercream frosting though.

[muppetinma]

Feb 25, 2013 17:26:56 GMT -5 carawestt said:

Feb 25, 2013 17:24:36 GMT -5 muppetinma said:

Probably doing chocolate cake with white buttercream.

I'm going sound like such a cake baking newb but is butter frosting the same as buttetcream? It's all I see in my cookbook.

As far as I know, yes.  

I want a frosting that won't stain his skin or clothes, but I want a messy smash cake experience.  I feel like the chocolate/vanilla frosting will give me the best bang for my buck.

[monkeybabe]

Probably carrot cake with unsweetened whipped cream.

[carawestt]

Feb 25, 2013 17:30:38 GMT -5 muppetinma said:

Feb 25, 2013 17:26:56 GMT -5 carawestt said:

I'm going sound like such a cake baking newb but is butter frosting the same as buttetcream? It's all I see in my cookbook.

As far as I know, yes.  

I want a frosting that won't stain his skin or clothes, but I want a messy smash cake experience.  I feel like the chocolate/vanilla frosting will give me the best bang for my buck.

It says butter, powdered sugar, milk and vanilla.

Me too. I'm planning a small 4 layer white cake and since his party is nautical, it'll be red and white alternating.

[carawestt]

Feb 25, 2013 17:32:50 GMT -5 monkeybabe said:

Probably carrot cake with unsweetened whipped cream.

Do you just use heavy whipping cream?

[jenbelle]

no idea, since he is MSPI still. ughh.

[mala]

Feb 25, 2013 17:33:27 GMT -5 carawestt said:

It says butter, powdered sugar, milk and vanilla.

Me too. I'm planning a small 4 layer white cake and since his party is nautical, it'll be red and white alternating.

Yep, American Buttercream frosting. It's my least favorite buttercream, but the easiest to make, and the most common.

Feb 25, 2013 17:34:35 GMT -5 carawestt said:

Feb 25, 2013 17:32:50 GMT -5 monkeybabe said:

Probably carrot cake with unsweetened whipped cream.

Do you just use heavy whipping cream?

Yep, just don't whip too long or you wind up with butter! (my friends and I did that once.... It was really tasty butter)

[Deleted]

I plan on doing a white cake, dyed with some juice, and a fluffy whipped cream topping.

[Deleted]

I really, REALLY want to do this cake



But basically, just white cake, use food coloring to do the different colors, and I'll probably just end up buying frosting instead of making it.

[dojo]

I'm doing a full out cake with italian meringue buttercream. Probably chocolate with a lot of blue dye in the icing. It's one cake, one day, so I'm not going to fret about sugar, chocolate and dyes.

[fusion]

I want to make a sponge cake, with whipped cream like icing mixed with berries for both the big cake and the smash cake. I bought a cake mold that looks like a huge cupcake for the smash cake.

[Deleted]

For the photo shoot, I made banana cake with cool whip frosting. On this actual bday, we did yellow cake with Buttercream (from the bakery).

[Deleted]

Feb 25, 2013 20:38:01 GMT -5 fusion said:

I want to make a sponge cake, with whipped cream like icing mixed with berries for both the big cake and the smash cake. I bought a cake mold that looks like a huge cupcake for the smash cake.

I made the big cupcake. It was very cute in pics, but was hard to bake. You may want to google instructions bc my cake was practically burnt on the outside to make it cooked completely on the inside.

[lydiasings28]

Feb 25, 2013 17:26:44 GMT -5 mala said:

For a smash cake I would probably do just a vanilla/white/yellow cake & frosting. Maybe a berry cake or frosting, but nothing outrageous, no chocolate, butterscotch, caramel or anything like that.

Ooh, a berry cake sounds good...

[katfco]

Either a cherry cake or a chocolate cake. Not sure how I'm going to decorate it yet.

[jaime183]

I'm making a hungry caterpillar cake... Luke's will be the face then the body will be cupcakes.
Luke's has to be egg free so I'm making it. I'll probably do white cake with cool whip type icing so it's messy

I am doing a smash cake at our photo session the weekend before, I might decorate that one with a caterpillar but just use cool whip too

[creamsiclechica]

I haven't decided yet, but I know I don't want her to be full of sugar and dye, so I'm sure hers will be something unsweetened with whipping cream. I'm thinking applesauce cake with blueberries.

[greenkitty98]

Smash cake will be applesauce cake with cream cheese frosting. The rest will be cupcakes put together to look like the cat's hat. (Applesauce cupcakes with cream cheese frosting for the white stripes, and chocolate cupcakes with buttercream frosting for the red stripes.)

[claralou]

I've never been a big cake person, but for some reason I'm really excited to make this for her party: www.annies-eats.com/2012/11/02/cherry-vanilla-layer-cake/

I'm still leaning toward giving Clara just a little cupcake for pictures though. Haven't decided yet.

[carawestt]

Feb 26, 2013 15:23:02 GMT -5 claralou said:

I've never been a big cake person, but for some reason I'm really excited to make this for her party: www.annies-eats.com/2012/11/02/cherry-vanilla-layer-cake/

I'm still leaning toward giving Clara just a little cupcake for pictures though. Haven't decided yet.

That sounds awesome!

[pippilongstocking]

I'm going to make hone for our photos. I'm not sure on the cake part yet, but I'm pretty sure ill do whipped cream for the icing.

[Deleted]

This reminded me to get looking for a recipe that is dairy and gluten free. I've got ideas of what I'd like to do but other than that nothing else

[Deleted]

I think in going to make a carrot cake. I just need to make sure that the cream cheese icing I make out of dairy free cream cheese tastes okay.

[Deleted]

Feb 26, 2013 20:31:29 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

Feb 26, 2013 20:26:59 GMT -5 @huahualove said:

I think in going to make a carrot cake. I just need to make sure that the cream cheese icing I make out of dairy free cream cheese tastes okay.

I love carrot cake! I've had one for every birthday for as long as I can remember. You're kind of making me want to do carrot cake. At least then I could pretend it was good for her, lol.

ohhh I like the healthy idea!!! I love carrot cake too but I've never made it so it might be interesting. I just know my nephew had an Elmo smash cake and he was stained red for all his pics and I don't want that so white icing only!