I don't usually go looking for cakes to make, they just sort of find me. Word of mouth, someone remembering a cake they saw me make on facebook, things like that. This cake was no different! I didn't have a pan big enough, so I'm going to show some behind the scenes of putting together multiple cakes to make it look like one big ol' sheet.
First, bake all your layers (since I had one pan, I would cook one, take it out,fill the pan back up and while that cooked I would trim the other cakes). If my cake looks funny, it's probably because it's a marble cake lol. Anyway,I'm not fanatical about getting my cake layers completely even, but I try to trim the middle with a large bread knife to get it as close to even as possible.
When an old friend from high school (excuse me? What do you mean next year is our 10 year reunion? That is so wrong) asked me to make a cake for another friend's bridal shower, I couldn't resist! She sent an inspiration cake, but I cannot find it through Google for the life of me. If I find it I will update this to include the link. Regardless, it was a square cake that was in the similar color and pattern as the one shown above. The issue was we needed a MUCH bigger cake, to feed 40-50 people. I only have an average sized rectangle cake pan and instead of buying a bigger one, I just attached together four separate sheet cakes to end up with one big two layer cake.
First, bake all your layers (since I had one pan, I would cook one, take it out,fill the pan back up and while that cooked I would trim the other cakes). If my cake looks funny, it's probably because it's a marble cake lol. Anyway,I'm not fanatical about getting my cake layers completely even, but I try to trim the middle with a large bread knife to get it as close to even as possible.
After the four layers had cooked, I decided to "crumb coat" (apply a thin layer of icing and letting it cool for a few hours to smooth it all out) the cakes into two cakes. So, each cake is actually TWO sheet cakes stuck together side by side with icing. Get it? I've got a picture below
After I let the cakes soak the crumb coat for a few hours, I removed them from the fridge, dumped a tub of icing on top of the bottom layer, then placed the top layer on. I ended up cutting off most of my crumb coat, because I cut the sides and top to give a more rectangular "gift box" appearance. After all my cuts were made (look how many crumbs are in the picture below!! Wipe those away with a clean paper towel before icing!)I added another crumb coat (super thin layer of icing) then put the rest of my white icing on. To avoid having a noticeable dip between the cake layers, fill the middle with icing until it evens the two layers, then proceed to ice the whole cake. To make the icing more white and less cream colored, I added white food coloring (found in Michael's cake department).
The black icing was in a prepacked tube from Michael's, because I don't love to make black icing :) it was a perfect size also. It did not spread as well as I had hoped, but I have not practiced fine scrollwork much so I can't be too upset at the outcome! You can find scroll work patterns to follow online, but I just decided on a pattern and committed to it.
Finally, I made some pink fondant and sized it to take up the majority of the cake. See that pink icing tube in the bottom of the photo below? That's the same brand and size as the black, but I bought the pink to make the border around the edge to clean up the cake's edge.
Remember, just because you don't have a large cake pan it does NOT mean you
can't make a large cake! If all else fails, keep throwing icing on that bad boy until it looks tasty ;) If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. Thanks for stopping by!
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