Alphabet Cake - Video Tutorial
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.
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!
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.
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
Very pretty! I've seen a lot of these cakes lately. Simple and spectacular as always! :-) Love it!
beautiful and seems way too easy
so the flowers you used, carnations ... were they fresh flowers and did you just stick them directly into the cake or where they wrapped?
Thanks Max, yes we used fresh carnations. We just washed the stems and parts of the flower that came into contact with the cake (for most of our flowers the stems were cut almost completely away and just propped up).
From the info that I could find, carnations are considered non-toxic to humans. But for anyone concerned about possible pesticides, etc. that the flowers may have been treated with, you can easily use a barrier beneath them, whether a little piece of waxed paper, candy coating, fondant, etc. that can be removed before slicing. Flower picks are an option too.
It's a good idea to google the flowers that you are considering for your cakes to ensure that they are non-toxic.
Melissa,
As usual you are right on top of the trends! I love this and can’t wait to make one!
Thank you!
Nancy
Was wondering how you prepared the strawberries you used to decorate the cake... fresh strawberries bleed color when I use them..,
Simple and elegant! I love the look of this trendy cake! Thank you for the tutorial!
~Jennifer
Love!!
Per cottage laws in my state I cant sell anything that has to be refrigerated. If i made this, what frosting would you recommend? I feel buttercream would be too much and heavy
Beautiful and elegant. Can't wait to make this one. Thank you.
Beautiful, can’t wait to try it! Love this much better than most of the pictures of seen that were cookies!
Video blacked out after five minutes...
Hi Rita, I'm sorry- I'm not sure why the video isn't cooperating with you. It's playing normally for me. It could be an issue with your connection. Send us an e-mail if the problem continues! (info@Mycakeschool.com).
*Also, did you try the alternate video format for this video? If you scroll further down, you'll see the second video. Maybe that one will work better for you.