How To Make A Pancake Cake
Oh and let me tell you this little tidbit… this cake was for Adele who was simply turning 2! I did her first birthday the year before and yes it was among my most favored cakes… the Pink Owl Cake with Ombre Ruffles… go take a look! For this particular cake, I started with three (3) 8″ round cakes stacked up, filled and frosted with vanilla buttercream.
I crumb coated it but I didn’t cover the slide with fondant with the technique I planned to make use of to do the pancakes. The cake was confetti cake. I’ve never posted a “recipe” for confetti cake, but I usually do considered one of two things. I either adhere to the same recipe as my vanilla cake recipe - substituting Pillsbury Funfetti Cake mix for white cake mix OR I have the exact vanilla cake recipe and put in rainbow jimmies.
To start making it appear like pancakes, I made homemade marshmallow fondant and used a smaller drop of brown gel coloring so it can gain an off-white color. Then I rolled it into long ropes to wrap around this cake. Not that which you expected, huh, It would’ve been excessively long to perform the whole cake with one rope of fondant, so I rolled out pieces providing I could, usually about 4 foot at time and wrapped it, then did more.
The ropes were irregular (exactly like pancakes) but I did try to keep the ends all on the one hand (a corner). I kept going all night until the many sides were covered (sorry - no pics). Then I took a ball of fondant and flattened it. I didn’t want any harsh cut sides on the top, so I just smooshed down a ball until it had been close to 8″ in diameter and smoothed against each other and laid it number one.
I manipulated it until it “fit” the superior of this cake. For the pancake coloring, I mixed some gold and yellow gel colors, a small bit of brown and red (or maroon) by vodka. 613 turntable) and used a tiny flat paintbrush to color the top side of each and every “pancake”, spinning it around and around, from bottom to top.
It may appear tedious even so the beauty of it truly is that it doesn’t should be perfect - pancakes are irregular and vary in color and shape…. ’s very easy to get it “right”. For the very best of the pancakes, I used a more substantial flat brush and painted it in circles.
Again - no have to be perfect! Oh how I wish I had taken pictures while accomplishing this and I promise I will if I ever try it again! The butter only agreed to be yellow homemade marshmallow fondant rolled out flat and I used a little square cutter to reduce it into pats.
When that it was all finished, I made some piping gel, used much the same combination of gel colors to find the “syrup” color, then used a squirt bottle to set it on this cake! I hand-cut the banner within the side, then used Tappit Block Cutters and Tappit Funky Alphabet Cutters to try and do the “Happy Birthday Adele”.
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