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Cat Shaped Funfetti Cake + Seven Graduation Cakes

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It was a big spring for my family. My brother graduated high school. My sister graduated college. My parents had their 25 anniversary. And with celebrations, comes cakes. Lots of cakes. So many cakes. All. The. Cakes.

It started with Molly’s graduation cake, the Moose Tracks Cake. And then, if you like us on Facebook, you’ll have seen the progress of baking SEVEN cakes for my brother’s open house with six of his friends. Instead of posting about every one of those cakes, I decided to do a group post of them:

Seven graduation cakes decorated with college logos are displayed on a table

Six graduation cakes decorated with college logos

The flavors were: chocolate chocolate, chocolate salted caramel, cinnamon roll, orange dreamsicle, purple velvet, strawberry chocolate, and white chocolate lemon. (Notice, one cake wasn’t pictured. There were two USC cakes, so I only included one in the picture because all seven wouldn’t fit.)

Oh yes, and then my brother got another cookie cake for our family party. Chock-full of butterfingers and topped with white chocolate cream cheese frosting:

Cookie cake decorated with USC logo for graduation

And then, my friend came up with the idea of baking a cake… So obviously we decided on a cat shaped funfetti cake. Because. Cats are daaa best.

Funfetti cat cake with two girls posing

It’s a homemade cat shaped funfetti cake. With lots of sprinkles. And THE best Oreo frosting ever. Notice the eyes made of Oreos. And the ears made by stenciling out the shape and filling them with sprinkles. The whiskers were white chocolate (trust me, more difficult than it looks) and the nose and mouth were the scraped-out innards of Oreos. 

Funfetti cake shaped and decorated like a cat

Deeelish. I included the recipe for the cat shaped funfetti cake below. (Unfortunately, I’m not going to include every single cake recipe. But, if you are interested in a specific one, just comment below and I can post it!)

But. 10 cakes in the course of about two weeks is a lot of cakes. So, don’t expect a whole lots of cake recipes for a while. I’m taking a little cake hiatus. But, knowing me, how long is that hiatus really going to last?

-Audrey

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Funfetti cake shaped and decorated like a cat

Cat Shaped Funfetti Cake

  • Author: Molly
  • Prep Time: 30 minutes
  • Total Time: 3 hours
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Ingredients

Funfetti Cake:

  • 2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1 cup whole milk
  • 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1/2 vanilla bean, seeds scraped out
  • 2 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • AS MANY SPRINKLES AS YOU WANT

Oreo Buttercream Frosting:

  • 3 sticks unsalted butter, softened
  • 2 1/2 cups (300g) powdered sugar
  • 2 tablespoons heavy cream, or milk
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 18 Oreos, crushed into crumbs

For decorating: Colored decorating frosting from the store, or plain vanilla frosting to dye with food coloring.

Instructions

Make the cake:

  1. Position a rack in the upper third of the oven and preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour two 8-inch cake pans.
  2. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
  3. In a small bowl, whisk together milk, vanilla extract and vanilla bean seeds. Set aside.
  4. In a stand mixer, fit with a paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. This may take 3 to 5 minutes. Scrape down the sides of the bowl to make sure everything is well incorporated.
  5. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating for one minute after each addition. If the batter begins to looks a bit curdled, that’s okay. Go with it!
  6. With the mixer on low speed, alternate adding the flour mixture with the vanilla milk mixture in three batches, starting and ending with the flour. When the batter is almost combined, stop the mixer and finish stirring the batter with a spatula and your own arm strength, making sure that any flour chunks at the bottom of the bowl are incorporated.
  7. STIR IN SPRINKLES
  8. Divide evenly between the cake pans and bake for 25 minutes or until golden and cake surface bounces back when poked. Leave to cool in the pan for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely. Must be completely cool before frosting and assembling.

Make the frosting:

  1. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, whip butter for 5 minutes on medium speed (I use “4” on my KitchenAid). Butter will become pale & creamy.
  2. Add the powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla extract. Mix on low speed for 1 minute, and then on medium speed for 5 minutes. Add in crushed Oreos and mix to incorporate completely, about 1 minute.

Assemble the cake:

  1. To make your cat shaped funfetti cake, use one 8-inch round as the cat’s head, and use the other to cut out two triangles for the ears and another little triangle for the nose.
  2. Frost and decorate to your liking! 

 

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Comments

  2. The oreos for eyes was a GENIUS idea! I will do this for my child’s bday next month

  5. WOW THAT CAT CAKE IS AMAZING! do you do requests? I would like one for my graduation party. Can you make 5 (because I’m graduating 5th grade duh!)