Lincoln Nebraska Special Events Cake | S’more Cake | St. Patrick’s Pot of Gold Cake

S’more Cake,  Lincoln Nebraska special events cake bakery created this cake for St. Patrick’s Pot of Gold Cake. This rich cake was made from a recipe that features Bailey’s Irish Cream. It is a three layer cake filled with the green tinted Bailey’s frosting, making a very festive looking slice of cake. The cake is formed to the shape of a pot and covered with a lemon flavored fondant , brushed with silver luster to resemble a silver pot. A green shamrock was placed in the front of the pot. Fondant coins brushed with gold luster and a rainbow decorate the top of this cake. This was great fun to make. I am including the recipe for this cake for your pot of gold!

St. Pat’s Pot of Gold Cake

Bailey’s Irish Cream Cake

2 c. all purpose flour                  1/2 c. butter or margarine cut into pieces

1 1/2 tsp. baking powder           1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

1 tsp ground cinnamon              4 eggs

1/2 tsp salt                                    1 1/3 c. sugar

1/8 tsp ground cloves                 3/4 c Bailey’s Irish Cream

Preheat oven 350. Butter and flour 3 (7″) round cake pans. Combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt and cloves; set aside. In small pot over medium heat combine Irish Cream and butter; heat until butter melts and mixture almost boils. Remove from the heat and stir in vanilla. Cover to keep warm. In bowl with mixer at high speed beat eggs until pale yellow and tripled in volume, 7-8 minutes. Reduce speed to medium; beat in sugar, 2 tablespoons at a time, until combined. Reduce speed to low, in thin steady stream beat hot Irish Cream mixture into egg mixture until combined. Beat in flour mixture until combined. Divide batter into pans. Bake 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.

Frosting

2 3/4 c. heavy cream                    1/4 c. sugar

1/3 c. Bailey’s Irish Cream           1 tsp. vanilla extract

1/2 tsp. cinnamon

Combine heavy cream, Irish Cream, sugar, vanilla and cinnamon with mixer at high speed. Beat until stiff peaks form, 3-5 minutes. refrigerate until ready to use.

Lincoln Nebraska Bakery |S’more Cake | Adalyn’s Smash Cake

At S’more Cake, a Lincoln Nebraska Bakery, we designed the cake for our grand daughter’s smash cake. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her older sister, Allie, and their parents, Alex and Nicolette Dixon. We love our delicious carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, which was one of the tiers in her parent’s wedding cake, so we were sure that this was the cake for Adalyn. We were all very curious to see if she would like this new taste of food, ….sugar! She is a very good vegetable eater, but hasn’t had much experience with sweets. It was a 7 inch, two layer cake filled with the cream cheese and designed with the rose pattern detail, so she could play with the frosting as she liked.

Her mommy, Niki, was the photographer for the photo shoot she had planned for this event. We set up the tipi in an area of the park near her home, timed it close to sundown, so that there would be the best lighting for the photograph. It was so beautiful with all the rich autumn leaves and trees.  We were all set up and watching to see her reaction to the cake, however, she was somewhat bewildered and didn’t enjoy the situation right away. With big sister’s help and music from mommy’s phone, she soon began to enjoy the birthday treat!

I love how perfect these photographs are and they are a wonderful memory of the great time we had together!

Photography: Nicolette Dixon Photography @www.nicolettedixonphotography.com/

Adalyn has her birthday smash cake with her big sister Allie

Adalyn is tasting her smash cake

Adalyn likes the cream cheese filling for her smash cake

Adalyn enjoys her cake with her woodland friends