Cake Sampler Recipe Guide

Tiffany Hill

Servings

12 Cake Trays

Category

Dessert

Here’s what you’ll need:


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Cake Sampler Recipe Guide

Ingredients

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    • 2 boxes white cake mix (brand does not matter even if oz vary)

    • 2 cups all purpose flour
    • 2 cups granulated sugar
    • 4 TBSP vegetable oil
    • 8 egg whites
    • 2 2/3 cups water
    • 16 oz. sour cream
    • 1 tsp vanilla extract

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    • 4 sticks (2 cups) salted butter, softened

    • 5 cups powdered sugar

    • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

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    • Varies based on choice, please see recipe instructions

    Directions

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      1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees

      2. Place all ingredients in mixing bowl and mix on medium speed until incorporated

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      1. Lightly spray cake trays with baking spray.

      2. Pour 240 grams into each cake pan.

      3. Place pans on a cookie sheet and bake at 325 F for 25 minutes.

      4. Allow cakes to cool completely before filling and decorating.

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      1. Once your cakes are baked and completely cooled, complete the following steps:

      2. Cut each cake tray into six even sections. See video here. I used this dough cutter to cut but a knife would work as well.

      3. Once your cakes are cut into six even sections, fill each section with your filling of choice. I filled two with raspberry, two with salted caramel, and two with lemon curd.

      4. Note: I use a long piping tip like this one to poke a small hole in each cake square. A skewer or butter knife works well too. Once the hole is made, use a piping bag to fill the cake with your filling of choice.

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      1. Prepare your buttercream. See recipe.

      2. Fill a piping bag with buttercream icing and fit with a 9 FT piping tip.

      3. Pipe the top of each cake square with buttercream. To help customers easily identify the fillings, I alternated colors. For example, the raspberry squares were piped with pink buttercream, the lemon curd squares with yellow buttercream, and the salted caramel squares with white buttercream.

      4. Optional: For a cleaner, more polished look, you can pipe a small buttercream border around the edges of each cake square. I used a #18 piping tip (but any small piping tip would work) and quickly piped along the edges of each section. This step is completely optional but only takes a minute or two and helps tidy up the edges of each square.

      5. Finish with sprinkles of your choice.
      6. Note: For accessory pieces (such as butterflies, bunnies, or other shapes), I fill a mini mold with either fondant or melted chocolate, then allow it to set before adding to the buttercream dollops.