Happy Spring!

Oopsie, forgot to post this on Friday!

It's kind of an unspoken tradition that I bring some sort of baked treat to work every holiday. People expect it! Not one to disappoint, I knew that I wanted to go big or go home this time. I basically copied this cake that I found on Pinterest. I loved the idea of the ombre look with the inside layers and mirroring that in the shades of the frosting. A lot of people have done this cake (in all sorts of shades) so I'm in no way original, but I take comfort in knowing that at least I did something that my co-workers probably haven't seen before! They're an easily impressed bunch so even though my cake was in no way close to as beautiful as the original, they were still so excited to see it and of course, eat it! My recipe and adaptations to the original can be found below.

The original inspiration had piped roses on the outside, but that was an utter disaster for me. So I had to improvise and kind of blend the different shades of frosting together instead.

I hope everyone had a very Happy Easter!

Cake (I doubled this recipe for 4 layers):
1 box Betty Crocker vanilla cake mix
Sub milk for the water
Sub melted butter for the oil
3 eggs

Notes: I used 8 inch round cake pans for the layers. For the colors, I used 1 drop of pink gel food coloring for the lightest layer and added 2 more drops for each additional layer. I also made these in advance, let them cool, then wrapped them in 2 layers of plastic wrap and froze them. When I was ready to assemble, I removed the layers from the freezer, and let them thaw for 20 minutes or so before evening the layers out and putting on the cake crumb frosting layer.

Frosting (again, I doubled the original recipe):
White Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

Filling (between the 2nd and 3rd layers):
Trader Joe's Lemon Curd