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’m wondering how you were able to get that beautiful red color in your frosting? I always end up with bright pink!
I made a Marschino Cherry Cake recently, but used a box mix that I doctored with the cherries, butter etc. I could definitely taste the cherries and it was a pretty, bright pink. My cakes aren’t as pretty as yours, but you can have a look. Hope it’s okay to leave the link. http://eatathomecooks.com/2011/05/maraschino-cherry-cake.html
I don’t like eating cherries either, but I love looking at this gorgeous cake! In fact, I repinned it from Tidymom’s Pinterest account yesterday:) Such a beauty!
so stinkin cute though! Love it.
Gorgeous cake! What a bummer about not being able to taste the cherries. The look of the cake certainly makes up for the lack of cherry flavor!
SO gorgeous…you have a fabulous color sense, Amanda.
SO beautiful.
Love the color combination on this cake, so retro!
Are you kidding? This is TOOOO cute! I love it! You are so creative my dear.
So cute!
Nice that you bake a cake for RR’s b’day and not for mine…what??!!
GORGEOUS! Red cherries on lt blue backgrounds are one of my most favorite prints. Reminds me of oil cloth. Great job girl!