Cake #24 - Meghan's Irish Green Layered Birthday Cake

Cake #24 - Meghan's Irish Green Layered Birthday Cake


 
So Meg wanted just a "green" cake for her birthday. Her birthday is right around St. Patrick's Day and being, well, a Patrick, an Irish green was a great idea. To fancy it up, I decided it had to have an edible green pearl decorations on top, instead of writing, and it  must have something "special" inside--colored layers. We used the square cake pans and did a double layer and split each with frosting in between all four layers. I had done this on many other cakes lately, but the color differential had not been so great as to make the layers obvious. So this time I decided we would do green on the outside and yellow and green (which turned out to be more of an aqua) on the inside.

 After baking and cooling my square layers I split each with my cake knife.After freezing the 4 layers for a bit to harden the crumbs for frosting,  I put them together sealed with a thin layer of the buttercream frosting I made before I tinted the majority of the frosting green. This cake large as it was required doubling my cake recipe, and tripling my frosting recipe; this is because I put it inside, and thickly all around the sides--tall cake as it was--and used my huge star tip to create the border and the thick pattern on the corners of the top.

 After frosting it thickly, the top needed something. I didn't want any writing on this one (as I would have had to make another batch of a contrasting color) so I used my edible pearls which I happened to have in a pastel green. Perfect. (This case was my inspiration for Jack's Birthday Hockey Cake - Cake #14 by the way.)

 Loved the look (and taste) of the colored layers, but alas this cake was far too much for our little family to eat. I think I may have put some in the freezer, come to think of it. I may go hunting for it tonight! Yum.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEET GIRL!