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Directions:STEP 1: BAKE CAKE AND MAKE BUTTERCREAM ICING
Bake your cake in the donut shaped cake pan. Be sure to thoroughly grease and flour the pan before adding your batter so that the cake pops out easily. Once cooled, wrap in plastic wrap and place it in the freezer so that it will firm up for the icing layer. Leave the cake in the freezer until it's very firm...about 2 hours or so.
Make your buttercream while the cake is chilling. Tint 1/4 of your batch of buttercream hot pink, tint the remaining buttercream a tan color (we used a bit of cocoa powder mixed into hot water and cooled for the brown color but you could also use brown gel paste).
STEP 2: ADDING FILLING TO THE CAKE
Slice your cake in half. Use a spoon to dig out a trench in the middle of the cake about 1" wide. We didn't "scrape" the trench out, we used a spoon to "scoop" the trench out, which made it a bit easier.
Filling the inside of a giant donut cake
Pipe pink icing into the trench. Then, use the back of the spoon to press the icing down inside the trench to make sure it's really stuck and smeared in there. (Trust us, we didn't do this right the first time and the filling fell out when the cake was flipped...oops!)
Filling a giant donut cake
Place your cakes in the freezer for 15 minutes or so, until the icing in the trench is firm. Then flip the top half onto the bottom half (We just winged this, and used our hands to flip it)
STEP 3: ICE THE DONUT
Ice the donut in a thin crumbcoat layer to seal in any crumbs. Then generously coat the donut in tan icing.
Place the cake in the fridge until the icing gets firm (15 minutes or so) and then dip your spatula in hot water, shake off the excess and smooth out the cake as best possible. This does not need to be perfect, in fact it looks more like a fried donut if it's left a little rustic.
Crumbcoating a giant donut cake
Icing a giant donut cake
Smoothing a giant donut cake
STEP 4: ADD FONDANT
Place your cake in the fridge while you work on the next step. Use a pencil to trace your pan shape onto wax or parchment paper, this will give you a guide as to how big you should make your fondant "glaze". Cut out the template.
Tracing a donut pan
Tint your fondant light pink. Roll out your fondant bigger than the template and instead of cutting directly around the ring, cut waves around the edge of the template, which will look like drips when the fondant is put on top. If you have rough edges like we did, use your finger to smooth and soften them.
Cutting out fondant for a donut cake
Smoothing cut fondant with your finger
Remove your cake from the fridge and lift and place the fondant on top.
Adding fondant to a donut cake
STEP 5: ADD SHINE AND SPRINKLES
In order for the fondant to really look like glaze, we painted a layer of edible lacquer. Mix together one tablespoon of corn syrup with one tablespoon of vodka (or very high proof alcohol). Use a paintbrush to apply the glaze. Immediately add the sprinkles on top so that they stick and let the cake dry until the laquer is dry to the touch. |
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