So this post isn’t so much a recipe, but it is a food related idea!
Today, April 30, is my wonderful, amazing, kind, smart, stubborn, loving Grandma’s birthday! I love her lots, but I can’t come home on her birthday because I go to school too far away, and her birthday is on a Monday. I decided I needed to send her some birthday love and good vibes, so I sent her birthday cake!
This adorable treat was simple enough to make, and I’m sure it will make her smile.
Long-Distance Birthday Cake
1 cake, 9 x 13
1 can of frosting
Jelly jars
Notes:
Yes, you have to use canned frosting so that these can be mailed. Homemade frosting usually uses butter or cream cheese and must be refrigerated.
Use jelly jars, because they have straight sides and will be easiest to get the cake into.
You might want to use pretty small jars. I used half pint jars and even that is still a lot of cake (I don’t judge though).
- Make the cake according to the recipe or box in a 9 x 13 pan. Allow the cake to cool.
- Using the circular top to your jar (not the ring part) cut circles out of your cake. I used half pint jelly jars and was able to cut 12 rounds from my cake.
- Carefully remove the rounds from the cake pan. Cut each round in half lengthwise, so you have two, shorter cylinders instead of one tall one.
- Place one short round in the bottom of the jar, then top with icing. Repeat three more times. To get the icing into the jar, put your icing in a sandwich bag with one corner cut off. This way you can get frosting between the layers of the cake without smearing it all over the jar.
- Once you have four little layers of cake, close your jar tightly and decorate! Write notes on top, use stickers, ribbons, birthday candles, whatever you want!
- Wrap carefully in bubble wrap and mail!
You’re going to have some leftover cake scraps after you cut out your rounds. You can crumble it, mix it with a little bit of frosting, roll into balls, and dip in melted chocolate to make cake balls! Or feed it to hungry college boys. That’s what I did.