I’ve seen the Letter Cake trend all over Instagram recently so for hubby’s 40th birthday I decided it was time to try it out.
It was lot’s of fun and super tasty, but yikes it was a lot of work. Here’s what the kids and I did.
Dough Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose flour
10 tbsp cold butter cold, cut into pieces
3 tbsp powdered sugar
1 tablespoon white sugar
pinch of salt
1 large egg
Cream Ingredients
16 oz block cream cheese, softened
3 tbsp powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
- Add all the ingredients (without the egg) to the food processor bowl. Pulse 2-3 times until the butter pieces are the size of large pieces.
- Add the cold egg and pulse until the dough begins to come together.
- Transfer the dough pieces onto a work surface, and gather them with your hands, forming a dough ball.
- Flatten the dough, wrap in plastic and put in the fridge for 1 hour.
- Take the dough from the fridge, divide in half, roll out the dough evenly (to ensure it browns evenly) onto parchment paper.
- Place the printed template on top of the dough and cut out the pattern. repeat with 2nd half and scraps.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and bake for 15 minutes.
- Cool completely before decorating.
- Fill cream in a piping bag with a round tip (I used a round 11 mm).
- Prepare a tray on which the tart will remain.
- Place first layer of the cake on the tray. Piped cream should have lot’s of height from all the sides.
- Carefully place the second floor of the tart on top of the cream.
- Pipe two or three rows of cream on the second floor of the tart.
- Decorate as desired – I put yellow and green gummy flowers, macrons, UnReal chocolate gems, UnReal almonds chocolate gems, fresh lemon and lime slices.
- Put the prepared tart into the fridge until it’s ready to be served.
- Enjoy!
- Original recipe can be found here.
