Happy Birthday Rachael Ray!
On August 25th Rachael is celebrating her birthday. Her fun and loyal staff over at Everyday With Rachael Ray Magazine thought it would be neat to get the world involved!
If YOU would like to make her a cake click on her facebook page and just post it! It could be see by thousands of fans!
I have been wanting to make these birthday cookies into a cake forever.
They were so fun and easy and I love when my friends let me make them cookies!
I also thought it would be fun to make the actual cake a cherry cake too! So I tried the Maraschino Cherry Cake recipe from Cooks.com.
I actually followed the recipe ingredients and directions exactly.
Gotta tell ya… I could not even taste a hint of cherry in it. Now, we all know that my palette is far from refined, but I can pick up on subtle if I am really trying.
And I did try.
I closed my eyes and everything.
It tasted like a bland vanilla cake. Boo! Hiss! Wah.
For the frosting I used my favorite full fat buttercream of the moment.
Buttercream Frosting
Ingredients
- 35 1/2 – 8 cups of powder sugar or a 2 lb. bag
- 1 cup shortening
- 1 -2 tsp vanilla if making white frosting use clear vanilla
- 1/2 -3/4 cup milk I have also used whipping cream and whole milk
Instructions
- Blend all ingredients on low until incorporated, then increase speed and blend for 1-3 minutes until reach desired consistency
Did you make this recipe?
Thank you for making my recipe! You took pictures, right? Well go ahead and post them on Instagram! Be sure to mention me @iambaker and use the hashtag #YouAreBaker.
Seriously. That’s how I do it. I am considering changing my blog name to “i am impatient baker”.
One change that was a really welcome addition was adding a 1/2 cup of finely diced maraschino cherries to the center layer.
They saved the cake.
Subtle. Sweet. Bright obnoxious red and turquoise cake with a hint of cherry flavor.
Interesting fact: I don’t like cherries.
If you have a good Cherry Cake recipe and want to share, feel free to point me in the right direction.
If you want to join me in a slice while I conduct a pity party, then please, pull up a chair. This could be an all-nighter.
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I haven’t made a cherry cake before but at least you got a beautifully decorated cake from it all!! Just tell everyone it was supposed to be vanilla…with a hint of cherry. 😉
That looks very cheery! What a pretty cake, and it sounds like it would taste delicious! This is going on the “Must Try” list!
Your interesting fact made me laugh the hardest… I too dislike anything cherry “flavored” (except for actual cherries… at the farmstand, in say…June)
I love cherries in chocolate cakes. And I think your decorating is beyond cute!
That is a beautiful cake!! Love it! If you are the impatient baker then I am the seriously messy baker 🙂
Seriously – so beautiful! I love cherries and I love the colors on that cake.
Gosh that looks neat and simple to do. I would like to believe i can do it too.
I love the colors, very cute cake! I LOVE maraschino cherries, YUM, I could eat a whole jar, and I’m talking those big giant jars, like bulk size 🙂
I’m not a cherry fan, but this looks yummy!! The cake is so cute and fun, what a great idea!!
Maybe for the “cherry taste”, could you use a cherry-flavour extract? I bought an apple-flavoured extract for the royal icing on sugar, apple-shaped cookies that I made for teachers @ school-year end. Check out this website from my supplier, Faerie’s Finest: “http://www.faeriesfinest.com/extracts.html”