Sports Cakes

As much as I love to make little cute cupcakes, sometimes you just have to raise the bar a little and try to make some serious birthday cake. That’s what I did this week.

I was asked to make 2 birthday cakes for 2 different persons. The first one practically lives at the gym, the second one just loves soccer. These two themes in mind, I was ready to start my own episode of fabulous cakes!

The first one is just a red velvet cake coated in sugarpaste and decorated with marzipan figures (which I entirely made myself).

The second one is also a red velvet cake, coated in sugarpaste and decorated with marzipan. But this one has a cream cheese oreo filling (mm.. so good!).

Want to see more pictures or just make one yourself?

The Red Velvet Cake
- 300 gr_____sugar
- 250 gr_____unsalted butter (room temperature)
- 250 gr_____cake flour
- 25 gr______cornstarch
- 250 ml_____butter milk
- 3__________eggs (separated)
- 1 tbsp_____cacao powder
- 2 tsp______white balsamic cream
- 1 tsp______baking powder
- 1 tsp______vanilla essence
- 4 tbsp_____red food colouring

The Cream Cheese Oreo Filling
- 450 gr_____philadelphia
- 225 gr_____icing sugar
- 1 tsp______vanilla essence
- 6 (or more) oreo cookies

How to?
Preheat your oven at 180°C.

Now let’s start with the cake batter. Mix the butter with the sugar, then add the egg yolks and mix again. Put the flour, the cocoa and the cornstarch in another bowl and mix ½ with the butter mixture. Measure the buttermilk and add the food coloring, also add ½ to the butter mixture. Now add the other half of the flower, mix and add the other half of the buttermilk. Now take a fat-free bowl to whip up your egg whites. Beat the egg whites until soft peaks form and gently fold them into the batter.

Put the batter in a tin and bake for 40 to 45 minutes. If you want to make a layered cake with filling, only use ½ of the batter and bake for 20 to 25 minutes.

To fill your cake (and then I mean spread something between the cake layers) you should start to mix the butter until it’s soft and smooth. Then add the icing sugar and the vanilla essence and mix. Then put the oreo’s in a foodprocessor, add the crumbled cookies to the cream cheese and your done !

You can now start decorating. Be original and create the prettiest cake ever.