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Recipe by Heather Baird

Pink Snowball Cake

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Dairy Dairy
Hard Hard
10 Servings
Allergens
1 Hour, 30 Minutes
Diets

No Diets specified

Ingredients

For the Cake

  • 3/4 cup unsalted butter (1 and 1/2 sticks)

  • 1 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar

  • 2 large eggs

  • 2 teaspoons Gefen Vanilla

  • 1/2 cup sour cream

Filling/Frosting

  • 1 generous cup sweetened flaked coconut (I like Baker’s Angel Flake)

  • Americolor Pink Soft Gel Food Color

Directions

For the Cake

1.

Preheat oven to 350°F.

2.

Grease a 2 quart heat-proof bowl (stainless or Pyrex) with shortening and lightly flour. Set aside.

3.

Whisk together cocoa and hot water.

4.

In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.

5.

Melt butter with sugar in a saucepan over medium-low heat, stirring to combine. Remove from heat, and pour mixture into a mixing bowl. Beat with an electric hand mixer until mixture has cooled enough to add the eggs without scrambling them.

6.

Add eggs, vanilla, and then cocoa mixture. Beat until well combined.

7.

Reduce mixer speed and add flour mixture in two batches, alternating with the sour cream.

8.

Pour into greased bowl and bake for 60-70 minutes, or until a toothpick tester comes out clean. Let cool slightly.

9.

Run a knife around the edge of the cake, then turn out onto a cake stand or serving tray lined with wax paper strips. Let cool completely.

10.

Cut the dome of the cake off about 1/3 of the way down from the top.

11.

With your fingers, press to make an indentation in the middle of the base of the cake. This will make room for the marshmallow filling without wasting any cake.

Notes:

You must use a 2 quart (8 cup) bowl for this recipe. The batter is approx. 4 cups and needs plenty of room to rise while baking. Wire-pick butterflies can be found in the floral department at most craft stores.

For the Filling/Frosting

1.

In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat butter until fluffy.

2.

Add marshmallow cream and beat again, scraping down the sides and bottom of bowl as needed.

3.

When thoroughly combined, remove 1 cup of the white mixture and place in the center of the cut cake.

4.

Place the top of the cake over the marshmallow center and line up the edges as best as possible.

5.

Add the 1 cup of confectioners’ sugar to the remaining frosting. Mix well.

6.

Use a small dab of pink food coloring to tint the frosting pastel pink. Make sure to scrape down the sides and bottom of bowl so no white streaks remain.

7.

Frost cake with an offset spatula.

8.

In a medium bowl, tint coconut with a drop of pink gel food coloring. Mix well—you can use a fork but I found my fingers did a much better job.

9.

Coat frosted cake with pink coconut.

10.

Remove wax paper strips from underneath the cake and tidy up the serving plate edges if coconut remnants are present.

Pink Snowball Cake

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