Birthday Blues... :)

Yesterday was my favorite's birthday. He had a very specific birthday request, a blue velvet cake. I have made red velvet cakes before... one for valentines dayish... one for boredom, but never a bluuueee velvet cake. So making this special cake was an adventure... but deffo worth it :) xx

 We used this Paula Deen Red Velvet recipe and modified it for our blue needs (blue food coloring instead of red). So I am just going to share picture high/lowlights.

 

creamed butter, sugar, eggs... adding blue stuff

eep...blue? green?

We might have had a little color mishap. We bought just a little bit of blue food coloring, and found what we thought was blue at home. It turns out it was green. So the cake is a bit of a mix. The color of the cake became a topic of conversation for a while, multiple times.

 

I am distraught by the aquamarine tint of the cake

out of the oven...cooling

The hardest part of making a cake, is waiting for the layers to cool before frosting. Some of us are more patient than others, but it is deffo agonizing for us all. I always want to frost it right away, but then the frosting melts on the still warm cakes, and that does not always end up pretty. So, I wait... Ugh.

cream cheese and fluff frosting... mmm

1st layer

apparently I was over eager

3 layers

I had such a hard time frosting this bad boy. It was a mess. Blue and fluff every where.  I might, next time make a little extra frosting, just in case. If it's not needed, then cream cheese frosting and graham crackers go so nicely :)

frosted... time to decorate

We decided to be kind of minimalist in our decoration. I generally like to play around with different shapes and frostings, but the Birthday Boy made up his mind. Coconut and a "J" (aka a candy cane cookie cutter) of blue sprinkles.

adding the J

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Finito- so cute

So. I was really excited to cut it and see the inside. But it was hard to capture a good picture during the flurry of Birthday excitement, but I am going to give you what I got. It tasted delicious, sweet, buttery and blue. I know the Birthday Boy enjoyed it. And we all ended up with blue tongues... yum.

cookie monster cake!