Shopkins Layer Cake
Fun, bright and delicious this Shopkins Layer Cake is everyone girls birthday dream! Colorful and bold fit for the perfect party!
Servings: 16 slices
Calories: 674kcal
Ingredients
- 1 pkg white cake mix
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup sour cream room temperature
- 1 cup water
- 4 egg whites
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp almond extract
Frosting:
- 2 cup butter softened
- 4 tsp vanilla
- 2 tsp almond extract
- 8-10 cups powdered sugar
- 4 Tbs milk if needed
- 1/2 block white candiquick melting chocolate
- Shopkins sprinkles found on amazon or at Walmart
- Pink gel food coloring
- Blue gel food coloring
- Yellow gel food coloring
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325.
- Prepare 2 8" round pans with cooking spray and parchment paper.
- Whisk together your cake mix, flour, sugar and salt until combined.
- Add your remaining ingredients and with a hand mixer blend until all dry ingredients are combined.
- Divide into your prepared pans.
- Bake for about 30 minutes or until lightly golden and toothpick comes out clean.
- To make your frosting, beat your butter until smooth.
- Add in your extracts and continue to beat.
- Add in your powdered sugar 1 cup at a time until you reach desired consistency, adding milk as needed.
- Separate about 1 - 1 1/2 cup of your frosting out in separate bowl.
- Add in your pink food coloring to the bowl with the more frosting and beat until desired color is reached.
- Mix in your blue food coloring into the smaller bowl and whisk or stir until combined and desired color is reached.
- To assemble your cake add 1 layer of your cake to cake stand and spread about 1 - 1 1/2 cup pink frosting and smooth to sides.
- Top with other cake layer and frost cake fully.
- Add your blue food frosting to piping bag fitted with an open star tip and pipe out swirls on top of cake.
- Sprinkle cake with shopkins sprinkles if desired.
- Melt your candiquick until smooth and add in a little gel food coloring at a time, it tries to seize if too much is added at once.
- Keep adding small amounts until desired color is reached.
- Add to piping bag and cut a small hole in tip and swirl up and down bottom of cake sprinkling with more sprinkles immediately.
- If you'd like to omit the Candiquick and use frosting instead just reserve a little more frosting from batch and dye with yellow food coloring.
- Refrigerate until serving.
Nutrition
Calories: 674kcal | Carbohydrates: 106g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 27g | Saturated Fat: 17g | Cholesterol: 69mg | Sodium: 527mg | Potassium: 73mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 86g | Vitamin A: 805IU | Vitamin C: 0.2mg | Calcium: 99mg | Iron: 1mg