How to Make a Wedding Cake Using Boxed Cake Mix and Canned Frosting _ Cake Collab with @Cakelegend

Hi , it's Ashley from Sweet Dreams Bake shop .

And today I am combining two challenges in one video .

The first one being taking box cake mix and can frosting and turning it into a wedding cake .

The second is that I'm doing my very , very first collab with this tiktok star at cake legend with 1.3 million followers .

Alia is one of the most young talented cake decorators I have ever met in my life .

Our challenge that we came up with was to give each other 10 adjectives and those adjectives could be whatever we wanted .

Now , we did try to make sure that we didn't look at each other's adjectives before drawing them randomly from a hat .

Each of us chose three words and we make whatever type of cake that we would like to .

I just watched at Cake Legends video and it was absolutely amazing .

So please , after you're done watching this go and check it out , I think the most challenging part for me here is combining clean and flashy .

So we'll see how well I do .

So firstly , what I'm doing is I'm just buttering my pans .

If you guys watched my other video where I use box cake mix to create something you'll know that that is my method .

Now , the only thing I'm gonna be changing in this recipe is instead of just using regular milk or water , I am going to be using buttermilk because when I make cakes , I really find the butter milk makes it really nice and light and fluffy .

And I also have a ton of it on hand and want to use it before it goes bad .

Two boxes of this Betty Crocker cake mix made approximately 28 inches and 26 inch cakes .

I have a lot , a lot of frosting here .

Now , I don't actually end up using all five cans , but I do use almost the full four cans and like all frostings .

It really needs to be re whipped so that it's a lot easier to work with .

I find this very similar to American butter creams that you make at home , but it still has a little bit more elasticity .

I find normally I cut this into two so that I have four layers .

So three layers of frosting .

But I'm a little bit skeptical about how well this will hold up if I do that .

So just to be on the safe side , I am just doing some extra thick frosting right in the center of the cake .

Later on , I do portion out the six inch cake in four layers and it works out perfectly fine .

So I'm sure that that would have worked for the bottom as well .

I then put both these cakes in the fridge overnight , but honestly , the butter cream hardened up pretty quickly , so I probably could have done it within the hour this morning .

My pinata cake camera arrived and I am super excited .

I'm going to be taking some rice paper now and I actually make salad rolls all the time .

So I always have this stuff on hand for non cake purposes too .

But if you want to make rice paper sales , it's super easy .

All you have to do is soak it in a little bit of water and then you just gather as you would like .

The reason that I'm adding these into the wedding cake is because I really want to sell that whimsical element .

I'm also putting this on a nonstick surface .

I really , really like using this matte because I find that I can just brush off the water really easily afterwards .

Whereas with parchment , it would get wet if you want this to dry , super quickly , put it in your oven at 100 and 75 F for about 15 minutes .

Moving along to my sugar flowers .

I'm just using fondant mixed with a little bit of Tylo's powder .

You could easily use gum paste as well .

I just don't have it on hand very often before Christmas , I purchased this Wilton set that had a whole bunch of cutters for flowers and it was so , so worth it .

I still want to do a video just on that flower kit alone because I really think it's a great option .

I've always been intimidated by the thought of making different types of flowers , but this orchid cutter set makes it so so easy .

And all I really needed to do was kind of roll out the edges just a little bit and that's all .

Now you could also vein this a little bit as well .

But I wanted it to have more of a modern kind of vibe .

So I'm just leaving it as is I'm just laying things out to see how everything is going to look .

But I'm actually just going to put this all together onto the cake later the next flower I'm going to make looks very similar to a rose , but the petals overlap a little bit more .

I actually think it ends up looking more like a rose than it was supposed to because I didn't follow the directions to a tea .

But with cake decorating , you just do whatever you see fit .

Whenever I want to make larger flowers that require more support in the middle .

I try to stay away from using styrofoam because I want to keep things edible .

So I use my lollipop trick .

So with the adjectives that I was given , I feel like the word flashy kind of reminds me of something that's luxurious .

Something that is a little bit more over the top .

So I did want to make some sugar flowers as these are more challenging to make .

And I feel like they always look beautiful and iconic on any wedding cake .

If I'm making sugar flowers or something that does require a little bit of drying time now because we added that Tylo powder , it's not super , super long , but I always try to make those first and then I cover my cake and fond it afterwards .

I did find this a little bit more challenging with the canned frosting just because I found when I put it in the fridge , it crusted over quite a bit more than my Italian meringue butter cream , which I normally like to use .

And when I put fondant onto Italian meringue butter cream , it just sticks right away .

Whereas I did have to add some shortening to this as I was adding in all of my supports .

It was functioning just like any other cake recipe that I've made from scratch .

So I was really , really happy with that .

All you need to do is make sure that you put in your center dowel as a well and place your cake on top .

Now , you'll notice that I did offset my cake and that's because I want to leave room for the flowers a little tip .

If you're having trouble cleaning off your board or in this case , my plate just steam it and everything will come off and look shiny and clean .

Again , some of you have been asking why I use a steamer on my cakes .

And the reason being is so that I can attach things really , really easily like these flowers and it also gets rid of any excess corn starch .

And if I'm using colors on my cake , then it really adds a nice saturation to them .

After adding on my flowers , I'm just going to stab in those rice paper sheets that have now completely dried and they're a little bit brittle .

So you do want to be careful when you insert these .

I'm just going to add on the last of this pearl border here and these borders I just purchased from the Dollar Store .

They're great because you can cut them down to size .

You can have them thicker or thinner and they're really , really inexpensive .

Keeping that word flashy in mind .

I'm gonna add some edible glitter here .

Now , this glitter adds a little bit more of a sheen .

So it is hard for the camera to pick up .

But in person , it is nice and glittery to me , this wedding cake looks really , really clean with its pure white color and I tried to keep the top really , really simple in texture and I wanted to add that little bit of whimsical feel with those sales .

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