Black Sprinkles Cake!

Hello and welcome back to the blog! Today I want to talk about a cake that was so fun to create!! I introduce to you my black sprinkles cake! I got these amazing sprinkles from Sweetapolita and I knew exactly what I wanted to do when I got them in the mail.

Everyone gets terrified when they see black buttercream. I totally get it. Most bakeries actually use charcoal to achieve black, and it usually turns teeth black. So I set out to find a way to create black frosting without giving your teeth a black tint.

I blended two recipes to create black buttercream. Bakingwithblondie and Cakebycourtney each have amazing black buttercream recipes that are essentially the same, so I figured... why not both.

While black buttercream is cool and all, let's talk EDGES. Do you see those edges? I was so proud of myself for how almost perfect I got those edges!!

I frosted the entire cake with black and then cut the space for the sprinkles. When frosting a cake the best thing to do is to constantly put the cake in the fridge. Patience is a real virtue when it comes to baking. I had this cake in the fridge for an hour before I cut the space for the sprinkles. ALWAYS work on a cold cake, hot/room temperature cakes can crumble, lean, and your buttercream can completely slide off the cake.

Also, when cutting the space for the sprinkles, I used a super sharp knife. Using a serrated knife seems like a good idea in theory, since that's what you cut bread with, but you will just create crumbs and make your day a lot harder than it needs to be. After you cut your space on the cake you need to immediately frost that area.

I frost immediately after I cut my section off because the cake will still be cold, and the frosting will adhere so much better! Then after I frost the cake I added the largest sprinkles first, and then filled in the area with the smaller sprinkles. This way as the frosting sets onto the cake, the sprinkles will have something to stick to!

When I added the sprinkles the cake needed one last touch. It took me a very long time of staring at the cake to figure out how to make it have that "finished look". I had this gold glitter dust that has been sitting in my pantry for MONTHS that I had never used because to be honest... I didn't know how to use it. I decided to take my food safe paint brush and just brush the glitter on and I thought it created a really cool effect to 


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