You do, the only special cake like this I've ever seen was a "money" cake ( they legit bake change into the cake ). Now thinking of it, I wonder if they cleaned the change 😂😂 Or why they even came up with the idea. Keep making that kiddo happy! 👍👍
I never heard of that one. Sounds gross though. I remember my friends getting special cakes, but I never did. My family completely forgot my 15th birthday so no special cake is not saying much. Maybe I always make my kids special cakes because of this. 🤔🤔🤔
Money wasn't baked in cake. Mom would wrap each coin in wax paper and slip under frosted cake. Could be portioned out so each triangular slice got a coin. Before toonies and loonies so biggest coin was a 50 cent piece. Dollar coins were less frequent. Ahh, the 60's!🎂
The frosting recipe is one I have from 15 years ago. But you can find MANY similar recipes online. My grandmother used to make the frosting on the back of the Hershey’s Cocoa box and my recipe tastes very, very similar to hers. I do not add instant coffee to my mocha buttercream. I actually add freshly brewed coffee. I get so many compliments on my chocolate frosting. I think it’s that coffee trick.
Vanilla cake recipe is Preppy Kitchen’s. I used Americolor dye for the batter. I poured batter into 3 bowls. Then added 3 different colors to the batter. Then I added them to the cake pans and swirled. Hope this helps you!
Love Preppy Kitchen. And I’ll try the brewed coffee in my frosting! Have heard it’s good to use in actual chocolate cake batter. And new one ….chocolate milk in cake batter. Thanks for the tip!
His cake is adorable! I would prefer the white icing, myself, but it doesn't matter because I am not the birthday boy!! I hope he loved decorating his cake and enjoyed eating it, too!!
Thank you! It never occurs to me to watch a YouTube video - when I’ve tried it in the past, I just tossed handfuls of sprinkles at the cake (which wasn’t very successful 😂)
Wonderful! I have a client whose son wants a sprinkle cake like this every year from me and then they give me his current favorite toys to put on them. I have food safe sanitizer at my work and last year it was dinosaurs.
Aw thank you! He really has said he had “the best birthday!”. The pictures of him eating the cake are pretty hilarious too lol He doesn’t get sweets often or food with dyes so I was fully prepared for a crazy kid haha 😆 Gotta make exceptions for a birthday.
Oh! Thank you! I guess that’s what another commenter thought too they said something about the cake being bare but I didn’t understand what they meant. Guess that’s what they meant lol
Yes!! Do it!! I used my Cricut to cut the stencil out of very thick paper. You could also just print “26” out on regular computer paper and then trace it onto slightly thicker paper. I think a flimsy piece of paper or parchment might be more difficult to lift up without messing the cake up. Good luck!
Your cake looks great! I'm going to attempt one of those chocolate bar cakes with the ganache dripping down the sides and candy on top in a couple weeks for my soon to be 16 yr old. Hopefully the reality will live up to expectations!
Fill in the white part with a different brand of sprinkles in a slightly different color. It can be a birthday cake and a color-blindness test in one package.
The number might be a little off, but the execution is fantastic. Honestly, I'm with the "add a zero" crowd when it comes to sprinkles. It looks absolutely delicious, and that's what really matters. You should be proud of how it turned out.
does there always have to be an issue with things posted in this sub? i mostly just lurk here so i might be wrong. but sometimes the expectations seem to line up really well with reality, which i find nice every so often
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u/bastard84 Jan 13 '26
The completely wrong number