How to make Blue Ombre Cake

Blue Ombre Cake

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

Cake Ingredients:

• 2 cups flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup butter soften (2 sticks butter)
• 5 eggs
• 1 tsp each vanilla and almond flavoring 
• 1 tbsp Baking powder

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degree F.

2. Grease and line parchment paper four 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 mixture, 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 mixed started with light color first, then increase the color darker.

8.  This cake batter about 4 cups of batter, so I a bake 4"x6" cake pans.

9.  I used sky blur gel food color, I added a little drop of blue color for the first pan, then increase the           color light to dark.  Pour the batter into 4 small pans, make sure divided the batter evenly.

10. Bake 30 -35 minutes or until tooth pick inserted in middle comes out clean.  Cool all the cakes                completely for an hour on cooling wire rack before frosting.

For Icing

Ingredient:

• 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 an electric mixture, cream butter and shortening. Gradually add sugar one cup at a            time, mix until smooth and well combined.

2. Add the vanilla extract and 2 tbsp of milk or water and mix until light and fluffy.

3.  Add more milk or water until desired consistency is reached. Scrap side and bottom of bow often.

4. 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. 

5. 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.

Icing recipe

1.  Add sky blue jell color to the batter, light color first, then increase the color darker.
2.  Before bake the cake I arrange 4 cake pan batter.
3.  After bake the cake 
4.  Using serrated knife, level off the cakes are evenly on top.
5.  Crumb coat with prepared frosting to all around the cake.  Place the cake in to the fridge for an hour. 
6.  Once crumb coat firming up my prepared frosting divided by 4 colors, from lighter blue to darker.  
7.  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. 
8.  Each line pipe a dot, then gently press with spatula on the center of the dot then drag a small act. 
9.  Take   other lightest color and pipe the next two lines, just above the darkest color.  
10.  Then other lightest color and pipe the next one line.  As well as same to do the top of the cake.