One Sweet Bite at a Time: Snowflakes and Square Cakes

BRRRRRR… It’s cold. Hate to state the obvious but, wow… It is relentless! Though I love New England and would never leave permanently, it’s the cold stretches like this that make me very tempted to hop on a plane and fly to Weston, Florida and crash on my brother’s couch for a couple of weeks!

The sub zero temps have made it hard to find motivation to go out and do things, but with moving day quickly approaching, I have been so busy prepping that I’ve barely baked! I am, however, getting extremely booked up for the spring with wedding season coming up which makes me very excited! Lots of bridal showers with smiling brides and sunshine!

I did get the chance to make there little cakes last weekend—I had a ton of leftover buttercream from the super heroes cake I did in December and had been wanting to use it up. It was already tinted dark blue, so I couldn’t really use it for the holidays so I decided to save it and make some square cakes! I like this take on cupcakes.. cupcakes are not my favorite things in the world. I enjoy making them because piping buttercream is fun, but really I am not all for globs of buttercream piled high on a small cake—hence why I am a cake pop feign! So I wasn’t feeling cupcakes, and didn’t have enough buttercream to really frost a ton of cupcakes, so square cakes were born!!

I made my chocolate batter and poured into a pan of little squares.

I threw all the buttercream into the Kitchen Aid and remixed for about 10 minutes to get some moisture and air back into it.

Meanwhile I dug through my sprinkles and found two I thought were appropriate for the cold weather! These would give my cakes a nice, wintery feel.

After the cakes were finished, I cooled them on a rack and took a sharp paring knife to cut the tops off that had rounded a bit while baking, so they were flat and ready for icing!