60th Birthday Cake

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Today is my uncle's 60th birthday! I wanted to make him a cake as a little surprise. I was inspired by the cake that I got from Carlo's Bakery a couple weeks ago. I made two 6 inch rounds of yellow cake and then made chocolate buttercream frosting.  I like the 6" size, as 2 sticks of butter (I reduced the recipe a bit) in the frosting is a nice amount to frost and decorate. Instead of using all regular cocoa powder, I used mostly dark cocoa powder. Ideally it is nice to frost the cake soon after baking, which I did here, as it locks in the moisture of the cake. 

Frosting layer in between the 2 cake rounds.

Then I frosted it all. Here is the utensil I used to make rings around the side of the cake. I had never tried this before and it was fun. I wouldn't have been able to do it very successfully without the round turntable plate that the cake was on.


After adding those rings on the sides, I just added the bottom layer of shells, and wrote his name.


This is the large tip that I used for the shells, 4B.



I figured I needed to decorate a bit more, so I added silver sugar sprinkles and a mini oreo.



 Happy Birthday Uncle Mark!

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