UPDATED: Tutorial HERE Scroll all the way down to see the UPDATED pictures and video for how to pipe ruffles for this fun cake!
Check out my original Christmas Tree Ruffle Surprise-Inside cake!
I decided to try and put trees in the midst of all those ‘ruffles’. To make the Christmas Tree Ruffle Cake I prefer to use my Whipped Vanilla Buttercream frosting. It pipes beautifully!
For the interior of the cake, I use my White Cake recipe… it’s the BEST!
But then, I took it a step further.
A Surprise Inside Cake!
The inside of this precious little cake that nearly killed me to cut into I loved it so is a red and green striped ornament!
A precious little green and red striped ornament… all INSIDE the cake!
And there you have it… A Christmas Tree Red and Green Ornament Inside Cake! Easy peasy.
Here is the tutorial for this cake!
Check out all the different ways to make a Surprise-Inside Cake!
And here is my new book, Surprise-Inside Cakes! You can see (in great detail) how I create these one-of-a-kind designs!
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Since originally creating this design in 2011, I have recreated this cake many times. The most recent time I took a few pictures!
Same design as the original Christmas Tree Ruffle Cake… three trees around the perimeter.
I also added a little tiny yellow star. That is optional of course!
But this time, I made a video! Now you can see how to ruffle the TOP of the cake! 🙂
Wow! That is absolutely amazing. Great job. I think it is gorgeous!
SPEECHLESS!!! You did SUCH an amazing job and the surprise inside is so fun and clever!!
Your are amazing. This is gorgeous.
Really, really inspiring! I like yours better than Martha’s, but shh 😉
Wow! Wow! Wow! I think most of your stuff is pretty amazing but as I was reading this post and scrolling down, when I got to the picture of your cake, I exclaimed out loud! It’s amazingly beautiful. And then the ornament inside. Just awesome!
You are so so incredibly talented. This cake looks STUNNING!!!!
Thank you very much for the post. This is so helpful. Keep posting, dear.
I tried making this, but the ornament did not turn out. When cut, at the outside edge of the ornament, it looks lined perfectly, but at the center, the colors mixed into each other. It literally looks like the guts of the cake. Yuck!!
I made the ornament by taking the cored out cake and the cake from leveling, adding color gels and buttercream to the crumbs, packing it in the core, putting the top on.
Sorry about that Georgia!
In the other tutorials that I linked to on this post, I showed how I get the cake for the interior portion, or surprise inside. Thecake needs to be colored BEFORE you bake it, then you add any type of frosting to get a spongierconsistency…
THEN you can go in carve out the cake and make your interior layers.
Will try and do a tutorial soon
Wow, that is amazing! First I thought the tree ribbons were impressive, then I scrolled down and saw the center ornament. It gives a whole new meaning to being “beautiful inside and out.”
Hazel @ TastyPursuits.com