Looking for a fun dessert you can make for Valentine’s Day? If so – try these mini Ombre cakes.
They are cute from the outside, and when you cut through them you’ll reveal a surprise:
different colored mini layers of cake! While these may look fancy, the good news is that they require easy to find, inexpensive ingredients and equipment.
Here’s what you’ll need.
- Boxed Yellow Cake mix (Duncan Hines was used for today’s recipe)
- Ingredients for the cake mix (Duncan Hines is: 3 eggs, 1/3 C oil, 1 C water)
- Red food coloring
- Pink food coloring
- Round cookie cutter
- 2 sheet pans/cookie sheets
- Parchment paper
- Cooking spray
For the Vanilla Buttercream Frosting, you’ll also need:
- 2 sticks butter, softened
- 4 C powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tbs milk
- Red food coloring
- Pink food coloring
Start by preheating the oven to 350°F.
Line pans with parchment paper and spray with cooking spray. Prepare cake mix according to box and divide the batter evenly into 4 bowls. (3 bowls plus the one you mixed in is fine.)
Leave one the way it is, and color the remaining 3 different tints of pink and red.
