Full Tutorial for this cake Here! *** My extremely talented and creative and artistic grandma (she even has her own facebook page, how cute is that?) has been an artist using various mediums for more years then I have been alive. She has sorta been on a watercolor kick in the last few years, and I am SO glad she is. Her talent with watercolor is truly awesome!
A few years ago she gifted me with this:
Hydrangeas are one of my favorite flowers, so this piece is so special to me! As I gazed at it the other day… it hit me. I gotta make this a cake!
Seriously. Who thinks like that??? So I made this.
I am not inventing the wheel here. Is that how the saying goes? Or should I say, “I am not re-inventing the wheel here?”
Ugh. Lets just blame pregnancy brain. So this is just my take on it! 🙂 Although I love the periwinkle and cool tones the best, I really wanted to capture the color scheme that my grandma created in her art. And then, because I am determined to FORCE Spring into my life, I made the inside the most spring like flavor I could imagine. Lemon. Seriously, I don’t even like lemon cake. Or, at least I didn’t think I did! This is a white cake (recipe here) with lemon curd filling and lemon frosting covered in buttercream crumb coat and buttercream hydrangeas.
Lemon Curd Filling
Ingredients
- 1/2 c fresh lemon juice
- 1 tbsp. cornstarch
- 6 tbsp. butter
- 3/4 c white sugar
- 4 egg yolks beaten
Instructions
- In medium saucepan, mix together lemon juice and cornstarch until smooth.
- Add butter and sugar and bring mixture to boil over medium heat. Stir constantly for one minute. In small bowl use a whisk to beat egg yolks until smooth. Add in a small amount of the hot lemon mixture to the egg yolks. (this is tempering the eggs) Now pour the egg mixture back into the sauce pan, whisking rapidly until fully combined.
- Reduce heat to low and stir constantly until reach desired thickness. Don’t let it come to a boil again! (takes about five minutes)
- Refrigerate for at least two hours.
- Make sure its cool before adding to cake. Its a good idea to make this ahead of time so your cake assembly can be easier!
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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.
I made my favorite buttercream frosting for the flowers, and I used the entire amount! So even though the recipe is for a large quantity, I used it all. I just separated it into three bowls then added pink, light purple, and dark purple to each bowl respectively. This cake is truly delicious. Moist. Full of different flavors and taste bud tingling sensations. Can you just imagine it at a bridal shower or even as miniature centerpieces at a wedding??? This post was getting kinda long so I decided not to include the tutorial for the cake. If that is something of interest, just let me know. I didn’t know if it was pretty self-explanatory or not. 🙂
Beautiful cake!! I would love a tutorial, I can not wait to attempt this!
this is gorgeous but girlfriend, you need to take your kick your feet up, take that apron off, watch some soaps, and eat some bon-bons cuz in a few days you are going to be “in love”!
I’m quite sure creativity runs in the family because the cake looks gorgeous as usual!
And when I saw the virtual baby shower from the other bloggers, I just thought, boy you deserve it! Can’t wait for your next tutorial or cake post 😀
PLEASE!! TUTORIAL< TUTORIAL
AND, as a Mother of four little ones, I send you early congratulations too!!! Such a blessing! Thank you for sharing your awesome virtual shower and all your talent with us!!!!
Beautiful! I love the lemon idea. I am not the best with frosting but I’ve got to try this. You definitely inspire me!
Another gorgeous cake, absolutely love it! Hydrangea’s are my favorite flowers too! I saw all the sweet virtual baby shower recipes across the blogosphere yesterday in your honor and thought they were all just so sweet to surprise you with that, you are SO DESERVING and I’m so excited for your new little boy to arrive!
Wow! What a gorgeous and happy cake!! Beautiful work!!
What a gorgeous cake! The centerpieces at my wedding were comprised of hydrangeas, so they have a special meaning to me. I wonder if I made this cake for our anniversary, would my husband get the reference? Probably not ;).
I would love to see a tutorial!