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The Cow Cake

This blog post comes from our good friend The Blahnik Baker who created this amazing and delicious Cow Cake just for us! 

Making a themed cake is always fun, especially for birthday parties. This cow cake is one of my favorites so far that I’ve decorated. It’s easy, simple and yet super adorable.

To make this cow cake, we start with a favorite vanilla (or chocolate!) cake recipe, baked in two 8-inch or 9-inch round pans. You can even use a boxed mix here. Once baked, let cakes cool before assembling. Whip up a batch of a simple vanilla buttercream (sorry you can’t use chocolate frosting other wise you will have a dark cow…which you could if you wanted to!) and fill a pastry bag with a medium open star tip. Using the pastry bag, decorate the cake all over with stars; the sides and top to create a blank white textured canvas. Let the cake chill in the freezer as you prepare the fondant pieces to decorate the cow cake. 

Once frosted and chilled, it's all about playing with fondant and getting creative. The black patches, nostrils, horns and mouth are all made with fondant. Make sure you read the recipe below in full before you start to ensure you have all you need. It's a super fun cake to make for a loved one!!

DIRECTIONS:

One recipe of your favorite Vanilla Cake, baked in two 8 or 9-inch round pan

One recipe of your favorite vanilla frosting

3-4 ounces Black fondant

1-2 ounces Pink Fondant

1-2 ounces White fondant

Wooden skewers or toothpicks

To assemble the cake:

To assemble the cake, place a layer of cake onto a cake board or serving place. Spread about ½ cup of your frosting on the cake. Top with the second layer of cake and spread about ¼ cup frosting on the top. Using a thin layer, crumb coat the sides of the cake. Using a small open star tip (I used Wilton tip 21), pipe the frosting all around and the top of the cake. Chill cake for at least 30 minutes.

For decorating:

In the meantime, roll our your black fondant. Using a round cookie cutter, cut out three to four round circles (you can cut out as many as you would like…these will be the black spots/ patches of the cow). Gently, using your fingers, pull on the black circles to form irregular shapes (these are the black “spots” on the cow). Using a paint brush, brush a thin coat of water onto the back of each circle and adhere to the chilled cake. (the water should only be a tiny amount to wet the fondant and help it stick to the cake. Too much will cause it to tear)

Roll out the pink fondant and cut out a circle. Tease the circle gently to form an oval. Adhere the pink oval to the cake as the mouth. Using two small dots of black fondant, add the nostrils to the pink fondant and use a small roll of black fondant for the mouth.

Similarly, use the black fondant and cut out balls that you will need for the eyes and ears. Make the eyes into flat circles and adhere with water. Add irises with white fondant dots. For the ears, use a toothpick or skewer to attach to the top of the cake. Add flatten pink balls to the ears. Similarly, use the white fondant to shape the horns and adhere with toothpick or wooden skewers.