Vanilla Fault line Cake With Russian Piping Tips – Sweet Spatula: Growing up baking with Natalie

I made this cake for my mom’s birthday and I had a lot of fun trying it out. I am definitely going to be making more fault line cakes and get better at it. I made the flowers with Russian piping tips and they are really cool, I definitely recommend trying them out. Let’s get baking!

INGREDIENTS FOR CAKE:

1 1/3 cup unsalted butter (softened)
1 1/2 cups cups granulated sugar
6 large eggs (Room temp.)
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tablespoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons salt

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and grease two 8 in. pans and a 6 in.pan with my homemade cake release.
Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium sized bowl.
Beat butter and sugar until light until fluffy with a hand mixer or stand mixer.
Add in eggs one at a time and beat well. Mix in vanilla.
now add in the flour mixture slowly. mix just until flour has disappeared, making sure not to over mix.
Evenly divide batter between two 8 in. pans and a 6 in. pan.
Bake for 20-25 min. or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Allow to cool completely.

FOR THE ASSEMBLY:

Make my go-to buttercream frosting recipe. You may need to double the recipe. You will need LOTS of frosting! Fill 4 piping bags with whatever color and Russian piping tips you want. I colored my flowers purple, pink,orange and yellow.
Next, fill a piping bag with green frosting fitted with a number 67 leaf tip.
Now, dye your buttercream teal (or any color desired) and frost all of your cakes individually with the teal. Now put your frosted 8 in. layer and on a cake plate or turn table. Put the 6 in. layer on top in the middle. Stick dowels or straws so the cake won’t fall down.
Then, place the other 8 in. frosted layer on top. Fill in the gap the 6 in layer left with Russian piping tips. Play around with the tips and make a bouquet all around the cake. Fill in any gaps with the 67 leaf tip.
Now take the remaining teal buttercream and smooth it on the top and kind of clump it on the sides so it partly covers the fault line. Smooth it out and dont worry about the rough edges because that is how it’s supposed to look. Then if you want mix gold luster dust and alcohol such as almond extract or vanilla extract. Take a food safe small paintbrush and paint the rough edges of the cake.I actually loved this. I thought t was so fun painting the cake. Now this does take time and patience but I definitely think its worth it. That’s all there is to it. Enjoy!

Thanks for baking with me!

~ Natalie