Pink Forest Silhouette Cake for Christmas

December 18, 2019

This cake came about because a friend was collecting cakes to donate to the soup kitchen for a Christmas party for the homeless. She does this every year and every year we try to donate a decorated cake. I didn't want to cover the cake in fondant because that just felt like bragging. But I also had about half a batch of pinky purple (purply pink?) raspberry buttercream left over that I wanted to use up on this cake. So, what design can I make to make it holiday appropriate, but with a pinky purple background? I eventually decided on a silhouette design.

I used several different sizes of tree cutters as well as star cutters to cut out a handful of trees of various sizes as well as stars of several different sizes.

The cake itself was vanilla cake and I filled the cake with raspberry jam.

Then I crumb-coated the cake in the purply pink raspberry buttercream.

I let the buttercream set up and frosted the cake again with more buttercream.

When I was happy with it, I started placing the white fondant cut outs. I started with the largest trees.

I placed them at regular intervals.

Then I placed the smaller trees and the holly leaves that look like evergreen trees between the larger trees.

Then I placed the largest stars around the top of the cake.

I also placed more smaller stars above the trees. I had three small trees left over that I placed in the middle of the top of the cake.

Finally, I placed the few small circles I had cut out in the sky above the trees.

The sun had already gone down when I was taking the photos of this cake, so it was difficult to get a true to color photo. But the purple pink cake really works as a Christmas cake.