How to make Blue Ombre Cake

Ombre Cake

I made this Blue Ombre cake, which is amazing. Shadow is the use of French words, it refers to colors that blend, the color shaded or mixture graduating from light to darkness.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups Flour
• 2 cups Sugar
• 1 cup Butter soften(2 sticks Butter)
• 5 Eggs
• 1 tsp each Vanilla and almond flavoring
• 1 tbs Baking powder

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Grease and line parchment paper 4 6-inch round aluminum cake pan with butter. 
   
3. In a medium bowl, add flour, baking powder. whisk together, set aside.
4. In the bowl of  an electric mixer, Mix butter and sugar till fluffy.
5. Reduce mixture speed to low, add eggs one at a time and flour mix alternately.
6. Stir in vanilla and almond flavoring. Stop the mixture and scrape down the side and bottom of the bowl.
7. I started with light color first, then increase the color darker.
8. This cake batter about 4 cups of batter, so I bake 4x6" cake pans. 
9. I used sky blue gel food color, I added a little drop of blue color for the first pan, then increase the color light to dark.
10. Pour the batter into 4 small pans, make sure divided the batter evenly.
11. Bake 30-35 minutes or until tooth pick inserted in middle comes out clean.
12. Cool all the cakes completely for an hour on cooling wire rack before frosting. 

For Icing:

Ingredients:

1 cup vegetable shortening 

1 cup butter

1 Tbsp clear vanilla extract

8 cups confectioner's sugar

4 Tbsp milk or water

Method:

1. In the bowl of electric mixture, cream butter and shortening.
2. Gradually add sugar one cup at a time, mix until smooth and well combined.
3. Add the vanilla extract and 2 tbsp milk or water and mix until light and fluffy.
   
4. Add more milk or water until desired consistency is reached.
   
5. Scrap side and bottom of bowl often.  

Using serrated knife, level off the cakes are evenly on top. Assemble the cakes in a cake stand, From the bottom darker cake to lighter cake. Spread the thin layer of icing between each layer.

Crumb coat with prepared frosting to all around the cake.  Place the cake in to the fridge for an hour. 

Once crumb coat firming up my prepared frosting divided by 4 colors, from lighter blue to darker.  I decorated my cake by using a Wilton writing tip. Put the icing piping bag with a writing tip, and pipe started the bottom of the cake to go past 4 lines horizontally, on darker color. Each line pipe a dot, then gently press with spatula on the center of the dot then drag a small act. Take other lightest color and pipe the next two lines, just above the darkest color.  Then other lightest color and pipe the next one line.  As well as same to do the top of the cake.

 Here is one of the slice cakes that I cut for photos.

How to Make Ombre Cake

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