Friday, June 19, 1970

Galaxy Blast Cake


Send your nextbirthday to the stratosphere with this easy galaxy blast cake. Full of buttercream goodness and decorated with eye-catching glitter and chocolate pearls, itll be the centrepiece of your party.

The ingredient of Galaxy Blast Cake

  • 1kg butter softened
  • 5 cups caster sugar
  • 6 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 16 eggs
  • 12 cups self raising flour
  • 4 cups milk
  • 500g unsalted butter softened
  • 6 cups icing sugar mixture
  • 4 tablespoons milk
  • gel food colouring royal blue teal violet yellow and orange
  • pure icing sugar sifted for dusting
  • 250g ready to roll white icing
  • 15g tube black queen food colour gel
  • metallic green edible glitter
  • 1 teaspoon baby silver cachous
  • 1 tablespoon silver chocolate pearls
  • assorted lollipops to decorate see notes
  • 1 tablespoon popping candy

The Instruction of galaxy blast cake

  • preheat oven to 180c 160c fan forced grease two 5cm deep 24cm x 34cm base rectangular baking pans line bases and sides with 3 layers of baking paper allowing a 3cm overhang on all sides
  • using an electric mixer with a large bowl beat 500g butter 2 1 2 cups sugar and 3 teaspoons vanilla until light and fluffy see notes add 8 eggs 1 at a time beating after each addition stir in 6 cups flour and 2 cups milk in 3 batches until combined
  • divide batter evenly among 3 bowls tint 1 portion blue 1 teal and 1 violet with food colouring drop alternate spoonfuls of mixtures into 1 prepared pan using a butter knife swirl mixtures together to create a marbled effect smooth top
  • bake for 1 hour 10 minutes or until a skewer inserted into centre comes out clean stand in pan for 10 minutes turn top side up onto a wire rack lined with baking paper to cool completely
  • make second quantity of cake batter by repeating steps 2 to 4 using a second prepared pan
  • dust a flat surface with icing sugar knead ready to roll icing until smooth divide into 5 even portions tint 1 portion blue 1 teal 1 violet 1 yellow and 1 orange with food colouring using a lightly dusted rolling pin roll out blue icing until 5mm thick using cutters cut out assorted shapes repeat with the remaining portions of tinted icing
  • make buttercream using an electric mixer beat butter in a bowl until pale and fluffy gradually add icing sugar mixture and milk beating constantly until combined reserve 2 tablespoons buttercream tint remaining buttercream black with food colour gel using a serrated knife level tops of cakes if necessary turn 1 cake cut side down on a cake board or serving plate spread top with 2 cups buttercream sandwich with remaining cake cut side down trim sides to level if needed spread top and sides of cake with buttercream sprinkle with glitter cachous and pearls
  • using picture as a guide use a little reserved buttercream to stack icing shapes together from largest to smallest arrange icing shapes and swirly pop lollipops on top of cake top with remaining lollipops just before serving sprinkle with the popping candy serve

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