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    Home » Recipes » Baby Showers

    Alphabet Cake - Video Tutorial

    February 12, 2018 By Melissa Diamond 23 Comments

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    Hi everyone! Alphabet and Number Cakes are BIG at the moment, thanks to the beautiful tarts and cakes made popular by Aditi Goyal. Today, we're creating our own version of this sweet trend in cake form.

     

    This Alphabet Cake Video Tutorial is such a fun way to customize a special occasion cake! We've adorned ours with chocolate,fruit, and flowers! (Member cake video section from MyCakeSchool.com)

    For this cake video, we've created an "A" cake, but anything goes...whether choosing the first letter of the birthday boy or girl's name, a number to represent their age, or even the first letter of the last name for a wedding rehearsal dinner.

    We've seen Alphabet and Number "cakes" of layered tarts as well as cookies, but for this tutorial we've chosen two thin layers of pound cake with a whipped cream cheese frosting. Just as with naked cake designs, we are only adding frosting to the filling and on top of the cake.

    To ensure freshness and prevent the cake from  drying out, we've also used a simple sugar glaze to coat the edges of the cake.

    We hope that you enjoy the video!

    Alphabet Cake Video Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com

     

     

    Materials:

    We used our Pound Cake Recipe poured into a shallow 11x16 inch pan. We used our "A" template to cut out our shapes from the partially frozen cake layer. Decorate with your fruits, chocolate, candies, sprinkles, flowers, or cookies of choice.

    Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting

    Sugar Glaze

    Fruit: We used Strawberries, raspberries, cherries

    Chocolate Candy Coating, some waves were created with a cake comb.

    Dark chocolate nonpareils (or your candy of choice)

    Piping Tips: Wilton 12, Ateco 869

    Coloring Gel- Mint Green

    Flowers: We used mini carnations and buds.

    Our cake base was two sheet cake cardboards wrapped tightly with a white plastic tablecloth and stapled beneath to secure.

    Piping bags

     

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    1. Melissa Diamond February 15, 2018 at 8:39 pm

      @Freda- I thought we may have some drops of juice form over time around the strawberries since contact with sugar can have this effect on fruit, but surprisingly did not. I know that this can sometimes be an issue though and so you can always wait until closer to the event to place them on the cake. We did have just a few drops here and there around our raspberries over time, but nothing noticeable (and easily fixable with a small piece of paper towel) ;0) -

      @Jen- Have you tried the non-dairy Whipped Meringue Frosting Recipe on our Large Fluffy Frosting Flowers video? This has a light consistency and does not require refrigeration. You can find it here:

      https://www.mycakeschool.com/video-tutorials/frosting-flowersvideo-tutorial/

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    2. Rachelle Monchik March 2, 2018 at 2:24 pm

      Hi there,
      The cake is beautiful. All your baking is fantastic. I want make two numbers cake. My question, how do I make templates for numbers. If you mentioned it, I’m sorry, I didn’t see it
      Thank you
      Rachelle

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    3. Melissa Diamond March 2, 2018 at 8:44 pm

      Hi Rachelle, I'm glad that you liked it! My "A" was easy enough to just kind of eyeball (I folded my sheet of paper longways, cut out half the letter and then unfolded). But you can find a lot of letter templates by just going to google images and searching for number templates. You can find them on Pinterest too. Here is a link that I found for free number printables but there are many more.

      https://www.thoughtco.com/number-stencils-set-1-4086387

      Reply
    4. Isabella Smith March 8, 2018 at 12:58 pm

      This cake is amazing I loved how you added the fruit.What kind of pan did you use for this?

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    5. Melissa Diamond March 8, 2018 at 1:20 pm

      Hi Isabella, we used an 11x16 pan, you can find details on the pan and other supplies used listed beneath the video under Materials.

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    6. patricia reed March 23, 2018 at 5:54 pm

      The cake you made is wonderful when cutting, does it cut well with the whipped cream cheese frosting?

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    7. BeBe March 23, 2018 at 6:29 pm

      Hi Patricia, Thank you for the nice compliment, we did not have any problem when cutting.

      Reply
    8. Baba October 27, 2019 at 6:43 am

      I just love the look of this cake and plan to make it as the number 70. I will be making macaroons to put on as additional decoration but will the cookies get soggy if I place them on the night before. Or will I be able to put them and the other decorations into the cold icing the morning of the event.

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    9. Melissa Diamond October 27, 2019 at 9:11 am

      Hi Baba- I'm glad that you are making the cake! I haven't tried this with macarons and so I can't say for sure. But, I would probably just put them on that morning to be on the safe side if you are worried. This whipped cream frosting will be soft so that you can easily push in the macarons in the morning.

      Reply
    10. Neenu Beh October 3, 2020 at 8:44 pm

      Hi Melissa, my question is more around the pound cake recipe. How do I convert it so that it can fit the cake pan size that you have used?

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    11. Melissa Diamond October 4, 2020 at 3:37 pm

      Hi Neenu- We used one batch of our classic pound cake recipe to pour into our shallow 11x16 pan, and then I was able to cut my two cake layers from that. Is this what you mean?

      This pound cake makes 8 cups of batter.

      https://www.mycakeschool.com/recipes-tutorials/pound-cake/

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