Strawberry Shortcake Cake - {Tutorial}

Strawberry Shortcake Cake – {Tutorial}

Hi fellow Between U & Me readers, I’m Stevie from Moore Babies and I am super excited to be guest posting here! (PS – this just so happens to be my very first guest post ever! Awesome, right? Thanks Courtney, you rock!).

I’m a Jersey girl living in Florida, by way of South Carolina (Go Clemson Tigers!). I consider myself to be a pretty darn good cook, an on-and-off neat freak, a thrifty $pender, a slight computer nerd, and a novice crafter.

I started Moore Babies about 2 years after becoming a stay-at-home-mom and decided that I DID take after my mother and I really WAS somewhat crafty. I blog about a variety of topics including my weekly meal plan where I share the upcoming week’s menu and showcase pictures from the previous week, my old and new favorite recipes, weekly pizza nights, adult and kid parties, crafts, embroidery, cake decorating, and the occasional product review. You never know what you’ll find over on my blog.

Speaking of parties, we just had my daughters 3rd birthday party this past weekend; it was Strawberry Shortcake themed and I would LOVE to share my cake with you.

Ok, I’m not gonna lie… I’m really proud of this cake.

Like, SUPER proud of this cake.

So much so, that’d I would like to share with you how I did it.

1. Start with a strawbery cake (boxed… which was FANTASTIC!!)

2. Put on a crumb coat using whatever icing you want. I used canned because I didn’t feel like making half a dozen batches of icing. This was buttercream.

3. I baked a white 8″x8″ cake (plus a dozen cupcakes) because I figured that not everyone would really like strawberry cake. Once cooled, I cut 1/3 off, then cut that 1/3 in half.

4. Put the 3rd layer on (secured with skewers… we should have leveld the cake, but we didn’t) and crumb coat and chill.

5. NOW using my Grandma’s Wedding Icing recipe, cover the whole cake in green.

6. Smooth the cake using step 4 on wiltons site (or after googling, this method looks awesome). I also added the icing for the pond…

7. … then smooth the pond out and added the pathway (PS I used valentine’s m&ms)

8. Next came the grass using tip 33. And then I took a break because my hand got sore. Back to the fridge went the cake.

9. Finally, I added in some color with some flowers; I made drop flowers (yellow) with tip 18 I believe and I made rosettes with tip 16.

Now we are ready for PARTY DAY!

I almost couldn’t cut into it… but with 17 3 year olds hovering around begging for cake, I had to give in.

Comments

Susie @Bowdabra says:

June 24, 2012 at 2:25 am

Oh wow! This cake is rockin’ sweet! You really did a super job on it. We use to decorate cakes for our birthday girls when they were little, too! It takes forever to do and then BAM! the cake is gone! As least you have some great pictures.

If you have time, we would LOVE for you to stop in and link up this post and anything crafty in our Crafty Showcase. It runs from Sat-Thur and then we have a Feature Friday with the top pics! We also have an ETSY store/craft business store linky. I love your printables and you welcome to link them up, too!

Susie @Bowdabra
http://bowdabrablog.com/2012/06/23/saturday-showcase-craft-projects-7/