Funfetti Bake Sale Cake

My daughter's preschool has a flea market and bake sale twice a year. I try to make something every time that will sell well. Or I use the cake to practice something. This time I just wanted to sell every slice. What do kids like? Sprinkles! So that was the theme this time.

I mixed up a batch of my new favorite vanilla cake. 

I added a quarter cup of Wilton nonpareils in two amounts folding gently between.

 I stopped folding when I started seeing the first streaks.

 I decided to make an 8 inch cake and to cut down on the browning on the outside, I decided to bake it all at once and cut it in half. The batter filled my 8 inch pan all the way to the top.

 I should have lined the sides with parchment paper to make it taller, because it spilled over on one side. The browning on the top was so thick, that to check if it was done properly, I had to make a hole in it. Otherwise the crust scraped the toothpick clean and made me think it was done.

 I leveled the cake in the pan because I couldn't even get it out of the form otherwise. I cut off the dark outside all around and off the bottom.

 I used a serrated knife in one place and used the turntable to cut the cake into two layers.

 Then I wrapped the layers seperately in foil and froze them overnight.

 I made one and a half recipes of American buttercream.

 Then I filled the layers with buttercream.

 I crumb coated the cake and chilled it briefly.

 Then I frosted the cake as smooth as I could.

 And covered it with sprinkles. These are the cheap sprinkles that melt inside a cake, but are okay for decorating the outside.

 I cleaned up the excess sprinkles as best as I could.

 Then using a piping bag and a star tip, I piped a border around the top and bottom of the cake. I'm obviously not the world's best piper, but it wasn't awful either.

 It was pretty for a bake sale cake and I hope it will sell well.