99 Cent Store Designer Wedding Cake!!!

[Music] welcome back to the abbey cakes youtube channel today we're going to be making a wedding cake which is our specialty however we're putting a twist on it we got all of the ingredients from the 99-cent store uh you can definitely make a beautiful wedding cake on a budget okay so this box mix calls for one cup of water half a cup of oil and three eggs and like i mentioned it's not going to take us very far as far as how much batter we're going to get so we're gonna start by extending it okay so the extension to get more batter is going to be us adding one cup of flour and one cup of sugar in addition to the mix and that's already mixed together in here to make the cake more moist and a little bit more dense we're gonna do four eggs instead of three one cup of sour cream that the box doesn't call for one cup of milk which it also doesn't call for and then a whole cup of oil instead of half of a cup and no water we're gonna just skip that all together so it can be really moist and then i want this to be flavored lemon so i am gonna add three tablespoons of lemon extract to the batter and because this is already a yellow cake we don't need to add any food coloring it's going to give us the right yellow color that we need for lemon cake so for today's wedding cake we are going to be making a two-tier cake six inch and eight inch rounds three of each i have already baked them so that we can just get started decorating but i will note that i baked my cakes for about 35 minutes i started with 30 checked them and then added an extra five minutes until my tester came out clean i didn't pour a ton of batter into the pans it was probably about a little less than halfway full because for whatever reason the box mixes they rise up really well and they do a lot of doming on top so 35 minutes is right in that time frame of 34 to 38 minutes since our cake is baked and now that it's chilling let's make the frosting so now we're going to make our buttercream and i am using a recipe today that is very easy and really delicious and it's from sugar geek show and you can go to their website or their youtube and you can find it and all the ingredients i was able to get at the dollar store a little note though about the butter it was really expensive i thought at the dollar store it was 3.99 a pound and that's pretty high sometimes on sale at a local grocery store you can get it for 99 cents a pound so just be mindful of that if you are really on a budget for today's ingredients we are using egg whites powdered sugar unsalted butter vanilla and salt all right if you do not have unsalted butter and you only have salted just omit the extra salt that we're going to add in but know that it is going to be a little bit saltier than it should be alright so let's start with our egg whites pour them into the mixer followed by powdered sugar [Music] okay we are going to use the whisk here and we're just going to mix them together on really low so it doesn't go flying everywhere i put in here six ounces of egg whites and 24 ounces of powdered sugar and we're gonna go on stir just until it's combined and then we'll kick it up a notch so this is like the easy version of traditional swiss meringue buttercream but instead of cooking the sugar and the egg whites together we're just going with powdered sugar and mixing it with the egg whites right off the bat still not on high yet i just want it to come together a little bit more now we're going to whip on high for a minute okay so our minute is up and now we are going to start adding in our butter in small chunks i did warm my butter in the microwave a little bit it's pretty cold here right now and so even though it was sitting out all night it was still a little bit too firm and i want it nice and soft so we are going to incorporate each little scoop and chunk of butter before we add in the next [Music] so this will just take a few minutes to incorporate all of the butter now that all of our butter is added in you'll notice it almost curdles not as much as traditional swiss meringue buttercream but it does go through the curdling stage and you'll let it keep mixing and it'll smooth out over the next few minutes but before we finish let's add in our vanilla and a pinch of salt and then we'll turn it back on and whip it for a few minutes our buttercream is all made and it's mixing on low right now and we will start trimming our 99 cent cakes so we are going to use um an eight inch board which is the same size as the bottom tier and i am going to cut it just a little bit because the semi-naked cake isn't going to have a full quarter to a half an inch of buttercream around it's going to have a lot less so i don't want the board to be exposed i could have grabbed a seven inch board but i didn't so we'll just trim it okay let's start with our first tier here the box cakes really have a nice dome i did flip them when they came out of the oven so that they're a little bit flatter and it's easier to cut but we're just trimming the dome off so that we have a really level cake once we start filling and icing okay so there's our first one move it to the side i'm just using a serrated knife to cut here i feel like i have the most control there are actual cutters that you could use but i just prefer this because it's what i'm used to and i have a lot of control over it and that looks pretty level to me these cakes are very very chilled which i like for any cake that i'm doing but in particular the semi-naked cakes because we don't want crumbs all over the place so these have been chilled for quite some time in the cooler we've got one more tier and then i think our buttercream will be ready it's been mixing on low for about 20 minutes and hopefully most of the air bubbles are out by that time when you whip the buttercream on high to make it come together you get a lot of air pockets and we don't want those when we're icing on the cake so mixing at a really low speed for 20 minutes will help with that all right let's start building our 99-cent store cake so i've got my trimmed first layer here and i'm going to build a well so that we can whoops we can put in our fruit in the middle so it's a lemon cake so i'm gonna do a little bit of vanilla buttercream in the center and then add in some fresh fruit [Music] let's add our next layer flip it upside down lay it on top kind of secure it a little bit to the buttercream and i'm going to seal up the edges here before we move on to filling this so i'm going to add a little buttercream around the edges and then take my spatula and seal it in this is just a really rough seal before we continue stacking we're going to go back and tidy everything up in a little bit next well [Music] this is going to be i think my first semi-naked cake from a box i'm excited i think it's gonna come out beautiful when we're all done [Music] all right and our final layer [Music] oh that looks good okay let me fill up my bag again and then we'll go around the sides once more seal it in okay now i'm going to add a amount of buttercream that's the same as if i were going to ice this completely and it would be fully covered and then we're going to scrape off to get the semi-naked look i'm going to start with a huge dollop on [Music] top [Music] semi-naked cakes are one of my favorite and i think they're probably one of the most ordered too from our shop they can just go with any occasion they can be dressed down for a rustic look they can be dressed up and made very classy and elegant this one we're going a little bit rustic wedding which is why i'm using this birch base here okay now we're going to add to the sides all right so i'm adding a full layer of buttercream here because if you don't add enough and you start scraping you're going to have so many crumbs it's easier to work with a lot and then pull off and get a little bit of crumb as opposed to a ton of crumb everywhere all mixed in the buttercream if you refer back to some of our other tutorials like the fall inspired cake you'll see all of our techniques for icing a cake [Music] okay here we go it looks pretty good time to scrape off [Music] for being a 99-cent store box cake it's holding up really really well better than i thought so it's going really smooth okay so as you can see we're finally starting to see some cake um i love a really clean semi-naked so i'm gonna pull off more so we can see a little bit more cake but i'm not gonna get too crazy and take off a whole ton more like this is looking really good yeah that's looking awesome you clean up the top a little [Music] it is coming along nicely we're pretty close to being done with this tier and all for about under 20 bucks i think the most expensive part um or the most expensive ingredient as i mentioned was the butter the cake itself was around 11 dollars um and then buttercream total maybe around eight or nine so for how beautiful this cake is already coming out i think that's a pretty awesome price [Music] just cleaning up our edges here so they're nice and sharp [Music] that looks really nice it's really really good i'll go around once more i think yeah i love that okay let's finish up the edges so i'm just looking really closely at my edges here to make sure we're pretty level i can't go back later with a leveler and make sure it's absolutely perfect but i think i've got a pretty good eye for it and it looks looks pretty good one more scrape okay i like that okay now we're ready for the top tier both of our cakes are iced and chilled and now we need to start building some support on the bottom tier so that we can stack so i'm just using straws from the dollar store i'm gonna put four of them in here and then we'll trim them so they're flush with the top of the cake [Music] and that'll be enough support for the six inch tier so i just kind of pushed the straw against the buttercream kind of as my marking pull it up a little bit [Music] and then trim and push it back down this is going to support the top tier from sinking in to the bottom tier so that we don't have just a cake sitting on buttercream as the cake gets softer it would sink in if we didn't have these straws in here to support the top tiers board and cake okay we're ready to go let's grab our top tier and stack it all right here we go this is the most nerve-wracking part set it on okay and we'll push it back a little bit and then we can dress it up with flowers okay so all of these flowers came from the dollar store and they were in bunches um i think we probably spent in total about four bucks on flowers in addition to the cake i have just trimmed them here and because they're not fresh flowers they don't need to be wrapped in floral wire or floral tape or anything like that so let's see where we're gonna go i think i'm gonna do three bunches on the cake as i'm looking at the cake right now i'm really looking for the best view of the cake which is obviously the most level where the cake is peeking through enough that i love it and then where the buttercream is smoothest and the edges are sharp so i think that this is going to be the front of the cake and we could do a ton of things with the flowers we could do a full arrangement in the front we can do little bunches throughout the cake and i think that's what i'm going to do i want a little bunch here a little bunch over in this corner and then opposite on top but i think i'm going to start right here see how it looks and then kind of finish it out however i feel looks best these flowers from the dollar store actually come already with wire that's bendable and flexible so that i can move it how i need it which is perfect because when you get fresh flowers you have to add in floral wire and it's just kind of a pain and these are ready to go so i'm just looking for a little space here i kind of want it to slide up the cake not too much pressure um this wire is pretty sharp and it's sliding in very nicely [Music] i want this flower to have a little bend in it so it looks kind of like a natural curve i'm going to take off the greenery though because you won't see that [Music] so i'm actually going to use i'm going to cut off some wire from another flower that i don't need right now and i'm going to use it as wire to move this flower in place where i'd like it to stay [Music] there so instead of it leaning all the way now it's sitting up really nicely [Music] all i'm doing is just creating a cute little arrangement [Music] oh i love it so cute a little more greenery i was initially going to do little bunches and opposite corners of each tier but as i finished the first arrangement in the center i noticed i had a lot of space down here on my board and i really like the idea of just putting them on the same side and doing a larger one here and then a little bit of a smaller one but very similar arrangements um on both sides so that's what i ended up doing and this is the final product for our 99 cent store wedding cake i think it came out perfect [Music] so that's it for today guys thank you so much for watching don't forget to like and subscribe and turn on the notifications so that you don't miss an episode and if there's anything that you guys want to see or that you're interested in or that you want to learn please let us know we would love to hear your feedback

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Id: 67IPSLrXqf0

Length: 16min 48sec (1008 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 12 2021