UPDATE: Full tutorial for a Cross Cake here!

So I have been throwing around an idea for a new cake.

There are really beautiful scroll design techniques that I have been adoring from afar and I finally talked myself into trying one out.

An Easter Surprise Inside Cake!

This is a simple white cake with chocolate buttercream frosting and… well… I’ll tell you more about it in a bit.

Let me just say, the simple white cake recipe I tried did not turn out well and I highly doubt I will ever try it again.

The chocolate buttercream frosting tasted like bland brownie batter to me. Which is weird because my vanilla buttercream is almost identical to that and I LURVE it.

An Easter Surprise Inside Cake!

An Easter Surprise Inside Cake!

This is my first ever frosting rose(or some other indistinguishable flower).

But now is the fun part.

The next part of the cake is devils food. I did it bakerella style.

I baked the devils food cake then crumbled it and added about half a container of cream cheese frosting. It was now very easy to work with.

An Easter Surprise Inside Cake!

Can you guess what this cake is?

An Easter Surprise Inside Cake!

How about now???

An Easter Surprise Inside Cake!

This is my Faith Cake.

Not a “t” cake Mr. Tim, but good guess.

When I think of Christmas, I think about Jesus! And I wanted so badly to make a cake that would represent something from His life… so I made this cake with a cross in it.

I think this cake would be perfect if I used white buttercream with red scrolls and a green bottom border.

You just may see that coming up!

If anyone wants it, I will try and do a tutorial about how I made this cake… is there at least five folks out there who would actually want a tutorial??

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Amanda Rettke is the creator of I Am Baker, and the bestselling author of Surprise Inside Cakes: Amazing Cakes for Every Occasion – With a Little Something Extra Inside.Over the course of her 15+ year blogging adventure, she has been featured in and collaborated with the Food Network, New York Times, LA Times, Country Living Magazine, People Magazine, Epicurious, Brides, Romantic Homes, life:beautiful, Publishers Weekly, The Daily Mail, Star Tribune, The Globe and Mail, DailyCandy, YumSugar, The Knot, The Kitchn, and Parade, to name a few.

Reader Comments

  1. I am too dense for a tutorial on this….it would make my head spin. I’d better just stick to ooohhh and ahhhhhh via pictures.
    Our family makes a cake every year for Jesus’s birthday. We light candles and sing “Happy Birthday”.
    I showed the pictures to H & K….H said, “Oh, there’s a cross of a church”. And then so did K as much as she could say those words!
    B E A U T I F U L to say the least!
    You rock Amanda!

  2. WOW! Beautiful cake! It looks so yummy. I would love to know how to make it but since I have no cake carrier right now (its on my Christmas list) I probably wouldn’t make it at this time. But it sure is elegant looking. Did you do the scroll work free hand?

  3. I did Amanda!! I just got a cake carrier at Walmart for $6.99! (i think) anyway,it was cheap and works really well!
    Blessings!

  4. I do, I do! Want a tutorial that is! 🙂 I was wondering if it was possible to make chocolate buttercream frosting. I love the homemade vanilla buttercream frosting. I wonder why it didn’t come out…
    BTW, I still haven’t heard back from Guiness yet. I wonder what their hold up is! 🙂

  5. Very nice! The roses take practice, you’ll get the hang of it soon. Once you do, you’ll be whipping them out super quick 🙂

  6. Thank you Jessica! I cant believe how sweet that is! he he Sorry. Whenever I see your blog name I say in my head How sweet IT IS! Im weird.

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