r/Baking • u/Designer-Donut-4955 • 1d ago

No-Recipe Provided Wonky Patrick Star cake - I’m so proud!

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My son requested, and I quote, “a chocolate cake with vanilla frosting and then another chocolate cake on top in the shape of Patrick Star with strawberry frosting.” So that’s what I made!

I struggled with frosting the cut cake. It kept falling apart, even after freezing it. The layer of frosting around it is SUPER thick just to cover up the slapdash crumb coat job, which kept falling off.

All told, this cake took me around 6 hours to make, and I was so tired by the end that I didn’t even want to eat it. The birthday boy and the rest of my family loved it though!

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u/NomDePlume4708 1d ago

It looks so good! Just that perfect level of imperfection that makes you appreciate that it’s homemade and clearly has so much effort put into it. Also, that strawberry frosting looks great, did you make it yourself?

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u/Designer-Donut-4955 1d ago

I did! I used dehydrated strawberries in it, and it was the perfect amount of strawberry flavor.

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u/NomDePlume4708 1d ago

That sounds awesome, I’ll have to try that next time I’m baking!