Cheeseburger Cake!!

Hello there!

As the title suggests this post is all about making a cheeseburger cake!

I know how exciting right?!

This was for my boyfriends older brother. His parents came to me and asked if I could make him one for his 25th birthday since he had asked for one when he was little but never got it. So of course I said yes and instantly the wheels in my head started turning. I didn't want to do just a rectangle cake cut to the shape of a burger....No, I wanted to make it a 3D cake....yes that is right....3D!!!!!!!!!!

Here's what ya need:

• two 8" round pans
• 8' round pyrex(this was the shape of a top bun I thought)
• wax paper
• two cake mixes- i did devils food cake
• yellow chocolate melts
•  toasted rice crispies cereal
• dried kiwi
• dyed and toasted coconut
• peanut butter frosting
• chocolate frosing

To start I took the coconut and dyed it with green food coloring until I got the color I wanted. Oddly it looks a lot more neon in the pic then in real life. I placed it on a cookie sheet and toasted it in the over. I figured this way the color has set and it won't run on the cake when all the layers are put together.

Next I made the cake mixes accrding to the boxes. To ensure they come out nice and easy I spray the pans with cooking spray, place wax paper on the bottom and respray with more cooking spray. they come out super easy every time. Next I let them cool 10 minutes in the pan. Then remove and let finish cooling.

 this is a picture to show the pyrex dish used to make the top bun.







While the cakes were cooling I made peanut butter frosting and Chocolate Buttercream frosting. Here are the recipes:

Peanut Butter:

• 1/2 cup softened butter
• 1 cup of peanut butter
• 3 tablespoons milk
• 2 cups powdered sugar

mix butter and peanut butter until fluffy
alternate adding the powdered sugar and milk until combined

Chocolate Butter Cream:

• 1 cup softened butter
• 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 tablespoons milk
• pinch of salt
• 1/2 cup of melted, cooled chocolate chips

Beat your butter until Fluffy
Alternate adding sugar, milk,vanilla until completely blended.
melt your chocolate chips in a bowl and let cool
add into the frosting with a pinch of salt and whip until fluffy.

Take one of the cooled 8" round cakes and frost with the peanut butter frosting. It came out the perfect color of the bun. Next add a layer of green coconut for the lettuce. Take the other 8" round cake and frost with the chocolate frosting. This is the patty so I frosted kinda rough to make it look like meat and not smooth.  I let this set overnight.

To make the cheese I took yellow chocolate melts and melted them in a ziploc bag following the directions on the bag. I took wax paper and made a square on it with the melts and filled it in. I let that cool for a minute. Next I took the 8" round pan and draped the wax paper with the chocolate on it, taping the corners of the wax paper down. This formed the choloate to the shape of the patty so it looked like it was melted on it.

The next day I took the cheese and placed it on top of the "patty" and then placed dried kiwis (pickles) on top of that.

 To do the top bun, I did a crumb coat of peanut butter frosting and let that get a crust. I then placed that on top of the burger and completely frosted it. I smoothed it out using water and a butter knife.

Next I took some rice crispies cereal and toasted in a pan and then placed those on the top bun to look like sesame seeds.

VOILA!!! There we have it, one cheeseburger cake!

To add a little flair to the cake I bought strawberry ice cream topping and pureed it to look like ketchup and found these apricot/coconut fruit logs to be french fries. I felt it just completed the whole look and feel to the cake. He loved it and so did his parents. It turned out really good and what can go wrong with peanut butter and chocolate!