Slowly and carefully slice with a serrated knife so the shell doesn’t crack. Remove the cake once the stripes are dry. Return to the refrigerator to set for 10 to 15 minutes. Carefully pipe chocolate zebra stripes onto the cake. Transfer the melted dark chocolate chips to a piping bag or zip-top bag with a corner snipped off. Place the cake in the refrigerator for 10 to 15 minutes until the coating is set. Once smooth, run a knife under the edges of the cake so it doesn’t stick to the rack. Use a knife to spread to the edges and down the sides. Pour the melted white chocolate mixture over the cake. When the white chocolate and coconut oil begin to melt, mix together until smooth. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat to medium-low.Ĭombine the white chocolate chips and coconut oil in a medium heatproof bowl and set it over the pan. Transfer the cake to a wire rack set over a baking sheet.įill a medium saucepan halfway with water. Place the other cake upside down on top of the filling. Spread the filling over the bottom cake, leaving about ¾-inch border around the edge. Use a serrated knife to carefully remove the domed top from the cakes, leaving a flat, even surface. Beat with an electric hand mixer until stiff peaks form. I erased the black smudges off the pink and gave it a general once over to make it shiny.In a large bowl, combine the whipped cream and marshmallow fluff. The last step is to use vodka and a paint brush to clean it all up. The topper is a plastic letter “E” from a craft store. Next time I will tint the icing I am using to stick the balls so it is not as noticeable. I stuck them to the cake board with the white butter cream. The balls were made by creating a rope of uniform thickness and then pulling off the same amount of MMF to roll into a ball. You can curve them more here to fit the circular shape of the cake better. You may have to arrange your stripes on the cake dry at first to see if you like it before “gluing” them down with the water.
I go from left to right on one side and then turn the cake and do the other side. Use a wet paintbrush, with water, and dampen the under side of the stripes that are hanging down.
Lay the stripes on the top part of the cake and let it hang down the side. It’s just MMF, you can squash it back together and reroll it out if you half too. Some form a “Y” shape, some are squaty, some are long and lean, just roll with it.
Go fast, don’t plan it out, look at a picture of a real zebra’s stripes and see how they are not exactly the same. The stripes are not perfect and almost always have a pointy tip on one side. To make the zebra strips it is best to use a pizza cutter. At first it always looks purple to me.Ĭan you tell the layers are a negative of each other…the bottom is pink with black stripes and the top is black with pink stripes?Ĭover the base layer first.
When tinting black, it takes more dye than you think and it does turn darker as it sets. The MMF was tinted hot pink and black with a store brand gel food dye (not Wilton’s maybe called American dream, I think). The bottom is two 9″ square cakes and the top is 2 5″ round cakes. So, I believe it was just a yellow cake with fudge filling and vanilla butter cream used to “dirty ice” it.
ZEBRA BIRTHDAY CAKE FREE
I tried and tried to get a good cheetah print going but I didn’t like how any of it was turning out (I tried for days, different stamps, cutting out shapes, free hand painting–just need more practice or suggestions). This person wanted a cheetah and zebra print cake in pink and black for a baby shower. I like to use MMF because it is tintable into every color and easy to play with. This was the third zebra pattern cake I’ve made.
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