New Year's Eve Fault Line Cake
 
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Serves: 12 pieces
Ingredients
  • Three 6-inch chocolate cakes, recipe below
  • 6 cups black chocolate buttercream, recipe below
  • 1½ cups sprinkles of choice
  • gold edible paint*
  • Piping bag + tips of choice
  • Bench scraper
  • Offset spatula
  • Thin pastry brush
Instructions
  1. Place one chocolate cake on the serving tray and coat the top of it with a thick layer of chocolate frosting.
  2. Take the second chocolate cake and place this cake on top of the first and frost with chocolate buttercream
  3. Place the third cake on top of the second and frost the sides and top of the cake with chocolate buttercream, this is your base coat. Place it in the fridge to set for 20 minutes.
  4. Place 1½ cups of chocolate buttercream in a piping bag and snip off the tip to make a ½ inch hole.
  5. Remove the cake from the refrigerator and pipe a 4-5 inch section of frosting around the center of the cake (this is where the sprinkles will go). Use a bench scraper to smooth out this middle section (do not worry about the top and bottom portions of the cake looking rough, we'll deal with this later)
  6. Add your sprinkles to the middle section of the cake, covering as much of the area as possible.
  7. Add more frosting to your piping bag and draw thick frosting lines around the top and bottom of your sprinkle area (as if adding a border to hold in the sprinkles). Now fill in the rest of the top and bottom of the cake with the frosting and smooth it with an offset spatula.
  8. Use a bench scraper, smooth out the top and bottom of the frosting you just added, careful not to press too hard or you'll knock off the sprinkles. Set into the fridge to set up for 20-minutes.
  9. Using your gold paint, paint edges of the fault line you created and allow it to dry.
  10. Pipe on your desired cake topping (I chose a rope feature) and add more sprinkles, if desired.
Notes
*Make your own edible paint by mixing a ½ teaspoon of gold luster dust with 2 teaspoons of vodka.
** If you need a little help, check out this YouTube tutorial
Recipe by Her Modern Kitchen at https://www.hermodernkitchen.com/new-years-eve-sprinkles-fault-line-cake/