Topsy Turvy Cake Tutorial
A pretty topsy turvy cake with different flavours on each layer so everyone is happy. Beautiful fresh flowers are a fast way to finish off the cake and I’ll show you the trick to keeping them looking good.
Thanks to everyone who came and said “Hi” at vidcon. It was lovely to meet you all!
To make this topsy turvy cake you will need:
1 quantitiy of my perfect sponge cake recipe (click to open sponge cake recipe and video here) baked in a 15.5cm (6.1 inches) and a 20cm (7.87 inches) tin.
Tiramisu layer
20cm (7.87 inches) sponge cake (see above)
Coffee Syrup
2 tsp instant coffee
1/3 cup or 73g (2.57 ounces) sugar
1/3 cup or 83g (2.93 ounces) water
Mascapone Frosting
500g (17.64 ounces) or 2 cups mascapone cheese
1/2 cup or 125millilitres (4.23 fluid ounces) cream
1/4 cup or 55g (1.94 ounces) sugar
1 packet Savoiardi sponge finger biscuits
1 ribbon to tie around the cake.
Macaron Layer
15.5″ sponge cake (see above)
White chocolate ganache
260g (9.17 ounces) white chocoalte
25g (0.88 ounces) or 2 Tbsp butter
86g (3.03 ounces) or 1/4 cup plus 2 Tbsp cream
5 drops vanilla custard flavouring
15 drops wilton’s salted caramel flavouring
One quantity of the basic buttercream recipe
red, pink and blue food colouring
One quantity of macarons shells recipe coloured in three shades. Note: using powdered colour is best for macarons, if using liquid colour use only a small amount or they will crack.
For the cupcake on top
Candy melts – color burst brights and dark cocoa
1 real cherry, choose one that is bright and shiny
mini candies to go inside
3d cupcake mold
edible silver pearl dust and a clean dry paint brush
For the flowers
fresh flowers of your choice, try and choose ones that tie in with the colour of the cake frosting and ribbon.
flower cake spikes
by Ann Reardon How To Cook That
2015
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Hello there. Can i use the sponge cake recipe to make Mocha cake? If yes, how? How tall does the cake measure with this recipe? What makes this recipe moist? I am following a chiffon cake recipe and it tends to dry.. ingredients are 1 1/2 c apf, 1 t baking powder, 1/4t salt, 1/3c oil, 1/2 c water, 4 yolks, vanilla. (I use 2 8″×2″ round pans but ended up 2″ high cake after levelling). Is there anything else i should add more to make it moist? Hope to hear from you. Thanks much..
Hi ricina, Ann usually recommends replacing the sponge recipe with this chocolate cake recipe: https://www.howtocookthat.net/public_html/chocolate-cake-recipe/ . You could then add the desired amount of espresso coffee to add the mocha element.
hi ann can you a sophia the first cake
hi ann
please please can you make a tom and jerry cake tutorial please .ihave been asking this for about two weeks ago .please
Hi Yasmine, Ann gets hundreds of requests and while she loves the ideas, can’t do them all. She plans the tutorials well in advance.
Hi Miss Ann, great cake tutorial, but I’m planning to do your chocolate cup, if I use melted compound chocolate to do the cup will it set at room temperature? Becoz when I tried it, it didn’t set, just became soft and when you touch the chocolate it just melts in your hand…
Hi Kaylee, Check the ingredients on your chocolate. If it is compound chocolate but you are finding it melts really easily, it probably has a very high fat content. A good compound chocolate will be stable at room temperature so you might need to try a different brand. If you are using real chocolate containing cocoa butter, it will melt easily and not hold its shape unless you temper it.
We’re do you get your bowls?
Hi Katie, Ann uses quite a few bowls in this tutorial. If you are referring to the Baking Tins, Ann got some of these from Bakers Secret. Most of the other equipment would have been found locally at a supermarket or department store.
Hi Ann，I LOVE your videos，soooo creative and awesome.
The thing is there is one guy I really really like and his b-day is coming and I know he likes this dragon guitar a lot, and of course I dont have millions to buy him a real one so I was thinking making him a dragon guitar cake.I know it’s kinda too much to ask but it would be so helpful and great that if you can make a tutorial about it.Thank you so much!
greetings from China.
Hi CC, Thanks for your suggestion. Ann gets heaps of requests every week and it isn’t possible to do them all. In addition, she has to plan and film the tutorials well in advance, so answering these kind of requests is just not possible.. Why not have a go at making your own design? Make a template of what you want the finished cake to look like and start planning!
Hey Ann! just watched this vid tuto it’s really awesome!! Can you make a shadowhunter cake? I really love them!!
My Gosh! another shadowhunter!! Plz Do make a shadowhunter cakeeeeeee!!!!!!!!
Hi Ann!
I love your vids so much. I really want to go to vid con but I live in Ohio not California.
For my 11 birthday cake it going to be the strawberry moose one.
I’m sending a letter to your po box with a cake design. I call it the Villnila Bean Dream.
Excellent, We will look forward to seeing it Katie!
Ann, how can you win the prize packs if you are not in la???
Hi Ann, does the flowers need to be organic? I am thinking of using flowers on my cake but hesitate because I’m not sure if it is ok to use non-organic flowers on cakes? Also may I know where can I get that stopper for the straw?
Hi Faithy, Obviously you don’t want to put plant material that may carry chemicals need your cakes. In most cases, flowers are not sprayed with such things as it would damage the blossom, but every region would have different arrangements for this. Cake decorators have been putting flowers on cakes for years so as long as you are not planning on eating them and you know where they are sourced from you should be okay. Ask your florist if the flowers have been sprayed with anything. If in doubt use something else. The cake spikes come with the stopper lid. If you are referring to the purple tube, Ann used a plastic cake support.
Hi Ann, thanks for all the best recipes you post on how to cook that.you really inspired me and now I want to try the cakes.my doubt is , I want to buy a conventional microwave and im really confused weather an otg is best or a conventorional microwave for baking cakes.pls help me cause u bake a lot and I think you can answer me the best .pls answer me.I can’t Waite for long to bake a cake.thanq.
Hi Sunainageorge, I bake all my cakes in the oven. I do not have a convection microwave so I can not bake in it. Sorry I can’t say if they are any good or not for baking because I’ve never used one.
I love this cake I am going to make it for my friends 30th birthday I wood love a free gift pack as I live in newcastle
I’m glad you like the cake. I’ll be giving away a couple of gift packs on fb once I get back from vidcon 😀
hi ann i live in singapore and i wish i can have thje gift its means so much for me i am a really big fan. i really hope i have the pack i know i am so far away from la but i really want the pack . love u ann!
It sure is beautiful and you sure are a genius.
Woah, this cake is AMAZING! Great job, Ann, I love your videos and recipes and have fun at vidcon! I live in the UK so I won’t be coming, but I’ll maybe enter for the pack when you release the competition. Thank you!
Great thanks Tara
Please give me a pack I don’t live near la and I think one will help me with my baking a lot I LOVE to bake
Hi Aja, I will put up a comp on facebook when I get back from vidcon for people who are not in LA
MADE IT!!!!!! It’s delicious!!!!
Hi Georgia, if you took a photo you can upload it in the comments
Hi Ann I will not be able to come to the booth but is there any way I can win the packages
Yes she told it in the video that she will post a link
Yeah she told it
Hi Teresa, I will put up a comp on facebook once I get back from vidcon 😀
Hi Ann! Could I possibly use edible flowers? Becuz I don’t like to use real flowers on my cakes. Thank you for making this video! I don’t think I will be able to make it to the baking booth. Thanks again!! Love Lisa
yes I believe you can use edible flowers I did 🙂
Hi Lisa, yes definitely you can use icing flowers instead.
THAT WAS AMAZING! It was so cool! LOVE IT!!! <3 <3 <3 <3
thanks ilovechocolate
Amazing and beautiful. Very nice gift packages. Have a great time at the baking booth.
thanks Shirley