Shabby Chic Pink Ombre Cake
Today is my birthday – Happy Birthday to me, yey 🙂 – and I chose to make a Shabby Chic Pink Ombre Cake with raspberry and chocolate, because I love them both and they are delicious together. Shabby Chic is a style which I fell in love instantly, from the first moment I’ve learned about it. It’s retro, elegant, charming, playful, dominated by white and pastel colors and floral motifs, especially roses, also in pastel tones. Shabby Chic is romantic, feminine and seductive. So I chose to decorate my cake in the Shabby Chic style. The design could be more elaborated but for this time I wanted a simple one. A cameo fondant and an arrangement of fresh roses were the only adornments of my cake.
Ingredients Shabby Chic Pink Ombre Cake
(for a cake of approximately 1,8 kg)
► Raspberry Swiss meringue buttercream
- 100 g egg white
- 120 g granulated sugar
- 150 g butter
- 100-150 g raspberry jam
- a drop of pink gel food coloring
- 200 g dark chocolate (40% cocoa)
- 100 g whipping cream
- 1 tablespoon of sugar
► Pastel Blue fondant (about 700 g)
Directions Shabby Chic Pink Ombre Cake
For the sponge cake, I baked 1,5 x the recipe from the Chocolate&Caramel Cake and I divided the batter between two 15 cm diameter cake pans. When cooled, I sliced each sponge cake in 3 identical layers.
I prepared a classic Swiss meringue buttercream using the ingredients from the list above. When the frosting was ready, I took 70 grams and put them into a cup. I added 2 teaspoons of raspberry jam into the rest of the cream and I homogenized. The I took another 70 grams of frosting and put them into another cup. I added again 2 teaspoons of raspberry jam into the remained frosting and I continued until I obtained 6 cups of 6 different pink tones, from white to dark pink. I added a drop of gel food coloring into the last tone to get a more intense shade.
I assembled the six layers of sponge cake and the six tones of frosting. I prepared the chocolate ganache and I covered the cake with it.
I put the cake into the fridge for the ganache to get harden. I rolled out the fondant into a 3 mm thick layer.
I covered the cake with fondant and trimmed the excess. Finally I attached the cameo and the floral arrangement. That’s it 🙂
First of all, happy birthday to you! I hope you had a wonderful day! Second… haha, I love that you call this a simple cake! This is so beautiful and SO big! And I love the decorations. Shabby chic is definitely a fun style – especially when applied to cake 🙂
Thank you very much Kathryn, you are so sweet 🙂 :THANK-YOU: :Heart:
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday Dear Simona, happy birthday to you! I hope your day was wonderful and very joyous. Thank goodness you made your own cake because I don’t know how you could have found anyone to make a cake as beautiful as this one. Absolutely gorgeous!! 🙂 xoxoxo
Well, to speak the truth, I am very perfectionist and obsessed with details, so I preferred to make my own cake and I really enjoyed it 🙂 Thank you very much, Karrie xoxo
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I like how you call this a simple cake!! Haha you are very talented. I have never made anything this complex. It’s beautiful!
I honestly believe that this is a simple decorated cake 🙂 I had a mold for the cameo, and the roses were fresh, I didn’t make them out of fondant (which is a quite elaborated work). Thank you very much, Natasha, for your appreciation ❤
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Happy Birthday!! I hope it was a great day! That is one lovely cake, and I really love the style of it. Layer cake is something I don’t do, but I love eating it. 🙂
Thank you so much, Annemarie <3 <3 I love layered cakes, especially since I learnt how to make them lol 🙂 And I love eating them too 🙂 This one was extremely tasty, I've shared it with my loved ones and the general conclusion was that I must make it again soon 🙂