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Cotton Candy Cake
My Cotton Candy Cake is a fun birthday recipe, flavored with soda to taste just like cotton candy. Its bright blue color and delicious flavor make it perfect for parties. Imagine biting into a cloud of pure sweetness, a swirl of pastel perfection that melts in your mouth. This white cake recipe tastes like cotton candy.
Ingredients
Cake
Frosting
Instructions
Cake
- Step 1
Preheat oven to 350F.
- Step 2
Grease a 9″ x 11″ casserole dish and set aside.
- Step 3
In a large bowl, beat together the white cake mix and cotton candy soda for 2 minutes. Adjust the color with light blue food dye, if desired. (If using, make the cake batter a deeper blue than you want the finished cake to be as it will lighten with baking.)
- Step 4
Bake for 25-30 minutes, until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
- Step 5
Allow the cake to cool completely before frosting.
- Step 6
Meanwhile, place 1 cup of cotton candy soda in a saucepan and heat until boiling over medium-high heat. Reduce to medium-low and simmer until reduce to 1/4 (2 oz of soda should remain). Allow to cool completely.
Frosting
- Step 7
In a large bowl, beat together the butter and powdered icing sugar for 2 minutes, then add the reduced cotton candy soda. Beat to incorporate, then add the milk as needed to achieve a spreadable texture. Adjust the color with blue food dye, if desired.
- Step 8
Use an offset spatula to spread the frosting on the cooled cake.
- Step 9
To achieve the fun texture shown in the pictures, use short strokes to spread the frosting, then go back over the frosted cake and rough it up a bit.
- Step 10
Garnish the cake with sprinkles, as desired.
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