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Easy New Year Cake (Clock Cake)
Easy New Year cake recipe and, homemade with simple ingredients. Decorated to look like a midnight clock cake with buttercream icing, white and black fondant. Step by step tutorial included.
👥 9 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 1h 20m⏳ Prep: 10 min🔥 Cook: 40 min👤 Abeer Rizvi📖 cakewhiz
🥘 Ingredients
Check off ingredients as you prepare them:
🍳 Cookware
- spatula
📝 Preparation Steps
1
Bake cakes and allow them to cool completely.
2
While the cakes and baking the cooling, prepare the icing.
3
Place a chocolate cake on a cake stand.
4
Use a spatula to spread icing on top of the cake. You can also add a raspberry jam filling, if you like.
5
Place the other cake on top of the icing and press gently.
6
Ice the entire cake in buttercream smoothly.
7
Sprinkle your work surface generously with powdered sugar. Roll out black fondant and spread it over the cake. Smooth it out on the top and sides. Then, trim excess along the bottom with a pizza cutter.
Black fondant4 cups
8
Cut out a thin strip of black fondant (about half an inch wide). Brush some water around the top of the cake and stick this strip. Use the side of a toothpick to make "line" indentations all around the strip.
Black fondant4 cups
9
Use a fondant mold or candy mold to create numbers with white fondant.
10
Stick these numbers on the cake by brushing some water.
11
Cut out two small white strips and two small triangles for the arrows and stick those around the middle of the cake.
12
Steam your cake from a distance, using a steam iron you use for clothes. This allows all the white powdered sugar reside to dissolve into the fondant and creates a cleaner smoother finish.
13
Stick a few white jimmie sprinkles around the top of the cake. Toss some sprinkles around the base of the cake. Enjoy!
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Another idea with buttercream frosting only and no fondant
15
Bake cakes and allow them to cool completely.
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While the cakes and baking the cooling, prepare the white icing.
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Place one cake on a serving dish.Use a spatula to spread icing on top of the cake. Place the other cake on top of the icing and press gently
18
Ice the entire cake in white buttercream smoothly. Use an offset spatula to create a spiral pattern alone the side and top of the cake.
19
Toss some white sprinkles of top if you like.
White sprinkles (Long jimmies)1 tbsp
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Fill a piping bag with black icing and a attach a small round tip. You can also use store-bought black icing tubes. Make sure the cut the tip really tiny with scissors. Pipe numbers on top of the clock. I recommend piping 12, 6, 3 and 9 first and then piping the rest of the numbers to keep all the numerals evenly spaced out.
21
Also pipe arrows striking midnight and use a wooden skewer to smooth out any imperfections.
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Toss some gold sprinkles on the top and sides of the cake to give it a pop of color and you are done. Enjoy.
Nutrition Facts
calories
316 kcal
fat Content
12 g
serving Size
1 serving
sugar Content
48 g
sodium Content
140 mg
protein Content
0.01 g
carbohydrate Content
51 g
saturated Fat Content
2 g
unsaturated Fat Content
10 g
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