Blue Ombre Cake Frosting

Thinly frost the top and sides of the cake with white frosting.

Blue ombre cake frosting.

Measure 2 cups frosting into fourth bowl. This blue ombre cake is a chocolate layer cake filled with milk caramel chocolate buttercream and covered in a vanilla though very blue cream cheese icing. Mix 1 8 teaspoon blue food color into the 2 cups frosting with whisk or fork. This technique involves gradual change in color of frosting fondant cake batter from dark to light.

4 add a little more food color to the next bowl of frosting to get a shade darker. Mix well with whisk or fork. Tint fourth portion with 1 drop blue. Tint second with 12 drops blue.

Frost the top of the cake layer then place the second cake layer on top of the first. Repeat with additional layers if necessary. Tint third with 5 drops blue. Spread a generous layer of buttercream between each layer of cake and apply a crumb coat of buttercream to the outside.

Refrigerate the cake for 30 minutes. Wrap the cake layers in plastic wrap freeze for about 30 minutes or until ready to use. Freeze for another 30 minutes. Tint one portion with 25 drops blue food color and 3 drops red food color.

Beat cake mixes water oil and eggs whites with electric mixer on medium speed in large bowl 2 minutes. A cake s a cake though until you dress it up and this one had a pretty simple dressing up with some balls of rolled sugar icing maltezers and white chocolate drips. Using an offset spatula smooth the frosting in one direction around the cake to create and ombre effect. I had no idea that these cakes would become such a hot cake decorating trend.

Crumb coat the cake with a thin layer of untinted frosting. Step 2 divide batter evenly into 4 small bowls. I first saw an ombre cake about three years ago in a magazine and ever since i have wanted to make a blue ombre cake. Frosting the blue ombre cake.

Pipe pink frosting around the bottom half of the cake and blue frosting around the top half and over the top of the cake.