Easy New Year Cake (Clock Cake)
Easy New Year cake recipe and, homemade with simple ingredients. Decorated to look like a midnight clock cake with buttercream icing, white and black fondant. Step by step tutorial included.
Servings: 9 Slices
Calories: 316kcal
Ingredients
- 2 Chocolate raspberry cakes Round, 8×2 each
- 3 cups Buttercream icing
- 4 cups Black fondant
- 1 cup White marshmallow fondant
- 2 tablespoon Gray sprinkles
- 1 tablespoon White sprinkles Long jimmies
Instructions
- Bake cakes and allow them to cool completely.
- While the cakes and baking the cooling, prepare the icing.
- Place a chocolate cake on a cake stand.
- Use a spatula to spread icing on top of the cake. You can also add a raspberry jam filling, if you like.
- Place the other cake on top of the icing and press gently.
- Ice the entire cake in buttercream smoothly.
- Sprinkle your work surface generously with powdered sugar. Roll out black fondant and spread it over the cake. Smooth it out on the top and sides. Then, trim excess along the bottom with a pizza cutter.
- Cut out a thin strip of black fondant (about half an inch wide). Brush some water around the top of the cake and stick this strip. Use the side of a toothpick to make "line" indentations all around the strip.
- Use a fondant mold or candy mold to create numbers with white fondant.
- Stick these numbers on the cake by brushing some water.
- Cut out two small white strips and two small triangles for the arrows and stick those around the middle of the cake.
- Steam your cake from a distance, using a steam iron you use for clothes. This allows all the white powdered sugar reside to dissolve into the fondant and creates a cleaner smoother finish.
- Stick a few white jimmie sprinkles around the top of the cake. Toss some sprinkles around the base of the cake. Enjoy!
Notes
- Don't use too much water to stick fondant pieces. It will become very sticky and hard to handle. A small amount goes a long way.
- Instead of using a mold for numbers, you can pipe them in white icing but you would need a steady hand.
- Don't forget to steam your cake at the end to dissolve all the white powdered sugar residue.
- Read additional tips and variations above.
- Leftovers can be stored in a sealed container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
Nutrition
Calories: 316kcal | Carbohydrates: 51g | Protein: 0.01g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Sodium: 140mg | Potassium: 26mg | Sugar: 48g | Calcium: 2mg | Iron: 0.1mg