{"id":18652,"date":"2021-10-20T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.janespatisserie.com\/?p=18652"},"modified":"2022-12-14T14:23:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T14:23:01","slug":"my-29th-birthday-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janespatisserie.com\/2021\/10\/20\/my-29th-birthday-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"My 29th Birthday Cake!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recipe for my 29th birthday cake\u2026 a chocolate and vanilla fault line cake!<\/h2>\n

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Happy Birthday to me!<\/h3>\n

Happy 29th birthday to meeeee! Yes that\u2019s right, I am now one year away from being thirty. Let\u2019s just avoid that little fact, and talk about all things cake! This post, is this years birthday cake!! <\/span><\/p>\n

I always bake myself a birthday cake as I love baking cakes – but its also a good idea for a celebration cake style recipe for my blog, so I always love to post them onto here and my social media channels. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Fault line cake<\/h3>\n

Over the years I have gone down quite the chocolate theme for my birthday cakes – as I am a true chocoholic. I can\u2019t resist them – but this year I thought I would do something I haven\u2019t done on my blog before, and do a fault line cake!<\/p>\n

I will say now before anyone asks – there is no video tutorial for this cake. As it was for my birthday and I baked this yesterday, I didn\u2019t have the time to video it – sorry\u2026 hopefully will do a tutorial video for a fault line cake at some point!<\/p>\n

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Cake<\/h3>\n

I decided to do a chocolate cake for the base cake of the recipe as I still wanted a little chocolate in my birthday cake this year – but used a vanilla buttercream frosting for the decoration. I love the combination of chocolate and vanilla and this is a good method of achieving it. <\/span><\/p>\n

I used a four layer cake – baking into two of these cake tins<\/a>. A slightly lower baking time means it bakes flat, and it stays moist! It\u2019s the charm of baking a slightly deeper cake too. Although, don\u2019t take them out too early, as the cakes will really sink if you do! <\/span><\/p>\n

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Decoration<\/h3>\n

When decorating a cake, I do find it easier when the sponge is frozen – some people may disagree with this, but honestly – it\u2019s so good. I bake the cakes, cool them, and then half them ready. Double wrap in cling film and then foil and freeze until required! <\/span><\/p>\n

I used a pale pink\/peach colour buttercream as the base – but you can obviously use whatever colour you prefer. I filled the cake with this buttercream, used it for the crumb coat, and then also the decoration! <\/span><\/p>\n

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Fault line<\/h3>\n

When doing the \u2018fault line\u2019 part – it can get a little messy if you use sprinkles like I did! I spread a little of the buttercream around the middle section of the cake using a small angled spatula, and pressed some sprinkles carefully into this buttercream. You don\u2019t need much buttercream, just enough to use as \u2018glue\u2019. <\/span><\/p>\n

Some sprinkles will inevitably fall off, so this is how it can get messy – but it\u2019s fun! You can use any colour or type, but you don\u2019t want the feature part of the cake to stick out too much, as the rest of the buttercream will have to be wider to create the look of the bake. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Sprinkles<\/h3>\n

Once I have pressed the sprinkles into the cake I chilled the cake in the fridge to set the sprinkles. I then used a piping bag to pipe buttercream around the cake bottom and top so that it was thick. I then used my large metal scraper to smooth the buttercream around the edge – this creates the look of the bake. <\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t worry if you cover some of the sprinkles, or if it looks a little rugged – this is good! It creates the jagged edge that is perfect for a fault line cake. Once the buttercream has been smoothed around the edges and top of the cake, I chill it again. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Extra touches<\/h3>\n

I used a little rose gold food paint to paint around the edges of the lines, to make it more of a feature – and then also did some paint splats as I got a little bored and carried away\u2026 sorry to the tiles behind the cake that became a little rose gold too haha! <\/span><\/p>\n

I used the leftover buttercream to pipe tall swirls of buttercream on the top – and sprinkle on more of the sprinkles, and some large pearl sprinkles for an extra touch! This is of course, optional. <\/span><\/p>\n

All of this is just what I happened to do for this years birthday cake – hopefully it can give you guys some inspiration for if you want to make your own fault line cake! Enjoy! X<\/p>\n

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My 29th Birthday Cake!<\/h2>\n\t\t
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A recipe for my 29th birthday cake\u2026 a chocolate and vanilla fault line cake!<\/span><\/div>\n