The cake! I mean, I can’t stop eating the cake. I needed a simple (time constraints up the wazoo) yellow or white cake recipe to adapt for my son’s 6th birthday party. Adapt, well of course, to be allergy-friendly. And to adapt into an Olaf — that cute-as-a-button snowman from the Disney movie Frozen.
I found the Cake Boss recipe on the Rachel Ray Show website, and made a couple of key ingredient swaps that has me stealing tiny slivers of the leftover cake throughout the day.
First off, I tripled the recipe, as I needed to get an Olaf plus 3+ dozen cupcakes for our large party. Tripling worked great, though I just filled the bowl of my huge stand mixer and needed to be very careful about not sloshing batter all over my kitchen.
Though we typically bake following real food principles, given the volume of cake I needed, and the short time frame I had to make it, I cheated and used some processed ingredients. I used about 2/3 of the oil with canola (but that was it, I’m not buying it anymore, this recipe took all I had left!) and the remaining I used the cold pressed coconut oil. I just LOVE the subtle flavor that it lends the cake.
I also used regular fine sugar, and all purpose flour.
For the milk I used vanilla soy milk.
This recipe is so delicious, and so easy! I would not hesitate to make it again 🙂
I was able to make two very full round cakes plus 3 1/2 dozen cupcakes. The cake is super moist, not too sweet (though it does have a TON of sugar in it) and delicious.
For the icing on the cake, I adapted a standard butter cream recipe — subbing coconut oil for the butter, and soymilk for the milk. Delicious! For the cupcakes, I cut jumbo marshmallows in half, and put them on top for the last three minutes of baking. The effect is great (was going for a snowman) and my son happens to love marshmallow topped cupcakes.
A few more fake food decorations (colored twizzlers on the cake, and orange licorice drops + Wilton candy eyes on the cupcakes helped me create my very own Olaf. Pinterest worthy? Who cares, my son was thrilled!
Snowflakes In January 