How To Make A Zelda Birthday Cake

Last summertime, when I had the chance to cook a cake for a fellow Zelda appreciator, I recognized that I needed to do it – a Hylian Shield Cake – the best Zelda Birthday Cake for any kind of follower! Right here’s how I did it.

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What You’ll Need For Your Zelda Birthday Cake

2 9 × 13 sheet cake pans

Blue fondant

Red fondant

Yellow fondant

White fondant

Silver Pearl Dirt

Vodka (Not kidding, you really require this)

Little paintbrushes

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Zelda Birthday Cake Recipe

Ingredients

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• 2 cups white sugar
• 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
• ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
• 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• ½ cup vegetable oil
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 cup boiling water
• ¾ cup butter
• 1 ½ cups unsweetened cocoa powder
• 5 ⅓ cups confectioners’ sugar
• ⅔ cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

Step 1: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 9 inch cake pans.

Step 2: Use the first set of ingredients to make the cake. In a medium bowl, stir together the sugar, flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Add the eggs, milk, oil and vanilla, mix for 3 minutes with an electric mixer. Stir in the boiling water by hand. Pour evenly into the two prepared pans.

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Step 3: Bake for 30 to 35 minutes in the preheated oven, until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to cool completely.

Step 4: To make the frosting, use the second set of ingredients. Cream butter until light and fluffy. Stir in the cocoa and confectioners’ sugar alternately with the milk and vanilla. Beat to a spreading consistency.

Step 5: Split the layers of cooled cake horizontally, cover the top of each layer with frosting, then stack them onto a serving plate. Frost the outside of the cake.

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The Zelda Birthday Cake Making Process

The Zelda Birthday Cake

I baked 2 delicious chocolate 9 × 13 sheet cakes and afterwards piled them to obtain a great elevation. Later on, I published out a rundown of the guard, quit as well as sculpted around my pattern with a blade. After packing my confront with the remaining sides (yeah I in fact do that as well as it. is. amazing.), I covered it in icing, after that blue fondant as well as included the cut-out information (utilizing water as a ‘glue’ to connect them on the cake).

The fondant

While making fondant in your home is more affordable as well as not as well hard (see the dish I make use of right here), I actually desired brilliant as well as brilliant colours for this cake. Therefore, I got heaven, yellow as well as red fondant from Michael’s as well as just made the grey one myself (by making white fondant initially as well as including black food colouring). Accomplishing such brilliant colours can be actually hard in your home without utilizing silly quantities of colour gel, so this was simply much easier!

Note: consider acquiring a fondant multi-pack that has heaven, yellow as well as red fondant packaged with each other. If you do not lose any one of it (or make any kind of blunders!) after that a multipack ought to have sufficient of each colour for the objective of producing the guard. Right here’s an economical one on Amazon.com. Acquire larger amounts if you’re paranoid you could require a lot more.

The designing

To essentially make the cake sparkle, I got the assistance of some excellent old vodka. … And also pearl dirt obviously! Pearl Dirt is usually readily available at a lot of craft or cake supply shops. For this cake, I got some Wilton’s Silver Pearl Dirt. By blending the pearl dirt with a little bit of clear alcohol (vodka in this situation), I had the ability to take a paint brush as well as make use of the blend as a silver paint.

This is just how I accomplished the metal appearance that can be seen in the silver components of the guard. It just took a little bit of additional job as well as made a massive distinction in wow element. I really can not think just how well it functioned! It offered my guard a great steel shine that actually took it to the following degree. And also do not fret, the vodka vaporizes right after it’s repainted on, so your cake will certainly not obtain you intoxicated.

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On The Whole, I was actually delighted with just how this cake ended up! Enjoying the pearl dirt function its magic was simply amazing as well as the cake recipient appreciated it as well. Due to the fact that I made this cake a year back, I ignored to take sufficient ‘process’ as well as ‘tutorial’ pictures, yet this video clip from Nerdy Nummies is actually terrific as well as basically information the procedure I complied with (with the exemption of the pearl dirt).

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