My son, Ezra turned 3 last week and we had a small little celebration at home for him with presents and cake. I had a lot of you ask what recipe I used, so I thought it would be easiest to put it in a blog post.
My son is obsessed with garbage trucks right now, so of course this cake had to include a garbage truck and then we added gluten-free oreo crumbs for the dirt! The cake is made with *fairly clean* ingredients, it’s gluten-free, and dye-free. I wouldn’t say the oreos are exactly clean… but hey, it’s a birthday cake. We are going for fun and yummy more than healthy when it comes to birthdays.
For the cake, I used King Arthur Gluten-Free flour which is my favorite flour to use for baking! I sub it into recipes all the time instead of regular flour and it almost always turns out so well. Here’s the recipe I used for the cake and the recipe for the chocolate buttercream frosting can be found here.
A few notes:
+ I made 2 layers for the cake and I wish I would have cut those in half to make 4 layers. Being gluten-free, the cake was a tad dry- it was still really yummy but I think having more frosting on the layers would have made it even more yummy!
+ the consistency of this cake is definitely easier to frost when frozen. I recommend making the cake the night before and then freezing it once it cools. It will make it easier to cut into layers and frost.
+ The frosting is literally SO yummy and would make a good frosting for cookies too! I definitely doubled the recipe to have extra.
I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as we did. We will definitely be making it again. Let me know if you try it! If you love seeing visuals of recipes, you can also see my reel here where I show clips of making the cake.
