Carousel bundt cake – trial 3

Posted by barb on Mar 1, 2006 in Pictures, Random Thoughts |

This time around I decided to try Bitch, PhD’s suggestion of using colored sugars or rainbow sprinkles anchored in the horses with butter. (I had thought about using colored sugar, etc., but couldn’t figure out how to make it stay in the horses – I might be able to do complex integrals, but anchoring sugar in a cake pan with butter is just too hard to figure out on my own.)

I tried lots of different sprinkles to see what would turn out best – several colors of sugar, rainbow jimmies, rainbow nonpareils, rainbow sequins. After loading up the horses, I put the pan in the freezer for a few minutes while mixing up the batter. This kept the sprinkles in place when I put the batter in the pan.
Carousel bundt cake, try 3

I’m not sure it turned out better than the colored batter attempt:
Carousel bundt cake, try 3  Carousel bundt cake, try 3  Carousel bundt cake, try 3

The jimmies, nonopareils, and sequins all ended up melting into the cake, though they did still keep their colors basically in the shape of their respective horses. The sugars seemed to slop all over, despite my best efforts to clean up the pan before adding the batter. The purple actually looks pretty good, and the blue and purple show up much better than the pink and green. Hmm…I didn’t have any of the crystal-type decorative sugars…I wonder if those would have worked better. I have one other idea to try, too; though, I’m beginning to think I might be stuck frosing the horses after baking.

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bitchphd
Mar 18, 2006 at 4:16 pm

Dang. It looks great in the pan, but the cake, not so much.
Re. frosting the horses, I actually think it would take less time than anchoring jimmies to the pan with butter, if you just mix up a simple buttercream frosting and pipe it around the outline of the horses. It doesn’t need to be complex; you just want to draw attention to the detail, right?
It is insane how interested I am in this project of yours. I take comfort from the fact that you’re obviously invested in it as well 😛


 

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