Pink Champagne Cake layered with Peach Preserves and Vanilla Buttercream
Today is my birthday! I am finally 30 although, I’ve been talking about it so much I feel like my birthday was weeks ago:) Because I adore Miu Miu’s glitter booties and because I probably will never own a pair, I thought that at least I could have a birthday cake that resembles the beautiful little sparkly shoes. The flavor I decided on for my Miu Miu Inspired Glitter Cake was Pink Champagne Cake layered with Peach Preserves and Vanilla Buttercream. Since I love Bellinis, I thought this flavor combo was appropriate and also in keeping with the pink sparkly theme.
The photos don’t do justice to the gold glitter effect; I need to work on my photography! I ordered this gorgeous glitter from a shop in the UK and painted it over top of a mix of Demerara sugar and gold sanding sugar. It really sparkled!
I basically used this recipe for the pink champagne cake with a few alterations. I used pink champagne (with peach and floral notes) and no food coloring. I also upped the dose of champagne using a whole cup instead of 3/4 cup. I balanced it by using a little less milk. I actually used the same icing recipe that I used for my Mom’s rose cake from I am Baker. I toyed with the idea of using almond extract instead of vanilla because I love almond champagne, but I stuck with vanilla to keep the Bellini flavors. I colored the icing a golden yellow to blend more with the sugar and glitter. I also colored a portion of the icing that pinky color to ice the bottom portion of the cake. Underneath each layer of icing, I spread some Favorit Peach-Mango Swiss Preserves which I bought at Harris Teeter. The results were delicious! I tasted a lot of the champagne and the peaches complimented it very well. I think it would have been good with almond buttercream too, I will probably try that next time I use champagne in my cake.
All in all, it came out just how I wanted, a perfectly sparkly 30th birthday cake:)
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AWWWWWWWWW I love! This is so so so so pretty!!
Happiest of birthdays! Wishing you a year of wonder and adventure! xo
ooooh la la!!! J’adore le gâteau que tu as fais
Delish
You had me at GLITTER! I LOVE glitter! What a beautiful cake. I love the pic of the girl with all the glitter heals…they remind me of my glitter heals
Happy Birthday beautiful one!
stunning! i love how you collide fashion with cakes! (i posted about them – hope that’s cool)!
You are simply an amazing baker
Wowwwww. My birthday was the 30th and I was 20, so maybe a decade behind but a fellow late-august babber
This cake is just….well, wow! I think your photos are beautiful even if you think you need to work on them a little more. Stunning and such a creative idea, lovely!
LOVE this!!! My birthday isnt until April but my husbands birthday is Monday, think it will be ok to make him THIS cake for his bday and buy those shoes for me as a present? Just BEAUTIFUL.
this is the most creative cake recipe i’ve ever seen !
http://www.candy.com/Edible-Glitter_c_1557.html
candy.com you can get all kinds of candy in every color, but they also have edible glitter. So you don’t have to get it all the way from the UK next time.
I love your cake.
owww I soo love this cake. my birthday is fast approaching can you make one for me?
I’ve been eyeing this cake for months on Pinterest. It look and sounds totally insane. I’m highlighting your cake as this week’s Food Porn Friday side bar feature on my blog.
Sooo pretty! What was it like to crunch down on the sugar though? Considering this for my wedding cake…
Thank you so much for the compliments and the shout out Julie! You’re awesome:)
Hi Natasha, and congratulations! It wasn’t bad at all crunching down on all the sugar, I would approach it the same way as fondant… you normally eat a little bit of the fondant on a covered cake but leave don’t eat all of it. That’s how this one was, we ate a lot of the outside sugar crystals but had plenty of frosting without taking the whole of the outer sugar layer on the fork. Glad you like the cake! It was yummy:)
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