70’s Cake

I made my aunt a cake for her birthday! She wanted a 70’s themed cake with the shag, crazy colors, and colorful daisies, you know all that fun stuff!! 🙂 She wanted my famous chocolate cake. (This is the cake recipe repeated) I will attach it bellow. Let’s start baking!

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

First, sift together in a large bowl, flour, sugar, coco, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Next, add oil, milk, vanilla, coffee, and eggs; beat well until you don’t see any lumps. Pour batter into two, 9 inch greased pans. Bake at 325 for about 25 minutes or until a toothpick comes clean.

Chocolate Cake Recipe

2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
3/4 cups unsweetened coco powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 pinch salt
1 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup hot, brewed coffee
2 eggs

I made a vanilla buttercream frosting since it is easy to use with food coloring.

Beat the softened butter over medium speed with an electric mixer until soft and creamy. Continue to beat over medium speed as you gradually add the powdered sugar. Stop the mixer and scrape down the sides of the bowl with a spatula as needed to fully incorporate all of the sugar.
Once butter and sugar have come together, add the vanilla. Beat in the heavy cream or milk 1 Tablespoon at a time until desired consistency is reached.

Vanilla Buttercream Recipe

1 cup unsalted butter (2 sticks), softened
4 cups powdered sugar
1 Tablespoon pure vanilla extract
4-5 Tablespoons heavy cream or whole milk

Let’s begin to decorating!

Here’s what you will need.

Cake (obviously) 🙂
Four batches of vanilla buttercream frosting * dye one brown, one orange and keep two white
Chocolate daisy suckers * I made them in molds
Sugar daises *I got them at a cake supply store
Tips #233 for the shag