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The Right Way To Celebrate Three Years Of Blogging | Blog Birthday Cake

What better way to celebrate three years of blogging than with a confetti cake? ? Well, there is no better way, I think. If you have missed what this is all about, in my Loves Lately blog post I talked about the fact that in April it is officially three years ago that I started blogging on Thoughts in Style. Of course this needs to be celebrated and that’s why I decided to bake a confetti cake. Since I can’t share a piece of cake online, I thought I would share the recipe so you are able to make one yourself for any type of celebration!

For the cake you’ll need a couple of ingredients: 180 grams of flour, 175 grams of butter, 160 grams of crystal sugar, 3 eggs, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract and 1, a half tablespoons of milk and a pinch of salt. Besides these ingredients, you’ll also need some other things, like a baking sheet, a cake tin (I used this PME one, which is ∅15×10 cm) and a bit of butter and flour to grease the cake tin. Btw, the recipe I used is from Linda Lomelino and her cookbook called “Zoet & Shoot!“.

Since we are making a confetti cake, we will also need some things to decorate as well. Of course you need buttercream to put on top of the cake. If you plan on making a multiple teared cake (like I did), you’ll also need some strawberry jam to add to the inside of the cake. You can make all of these things  yourself, or you just buy them pre made at the store (like I did) if you don’t feel like making these yourself. Lastly, you’ll of course need lots of sprinkles. Make sure you know what part of the cake you want to cover in sprinkles so you know how much sprinkles you’ll need.

After you’ve greased your cake tin (don’t forget to measure a baking sheet and put it in the bottom of the tin), it’s time to start with the recipe. But stop. First put on your oven at 175 °C because it needs to be warm when you put your cake in. Now you need to mix the flour, baking powder and pinch of salt in a bowl. Then grab another bowl because in this one you’ll mix the butter, sugar and vanilla extract. I would recommend to use a mixer since you need to mix it together for about five minutes. Add the eggs to it one by one and keep mixing. When all three eggs are in, you can add the dry ingredients you’ve just mixed together in the other bowl. I would recommend not pouring it in all at once, just add a little and mix it with the rest. Just mix it until you are happy with the result. It should look something like the photo above and then add it to the cake tin.

The cake needs to be in the oven for about 40 to 50 minutes. It kind of depends on your oven. When it’s done, let the cake cool off in the tin at first and then get it out and let it cool completely on a wire rack (like the one I used in the photo above). I chose to cut my cake in half (horizontal not vertical of course) and put spread some jam in the cake to spice it up a little. When you’ve added the jam, put the cake back together to start with the buttercream.

Since I am lazy, I chose to buy a mix for buttercream so I only had to add 100 grams of butter and 125 ml of milk. First the butter has to be beaten until it’s soft and then add the buttercream mix and milk. Now mix everything until it looks smooth and doesn’t have any lumps of butter in it anymore. I used a knife to add the buttercream on top of the cake and spread it out evenly. Since I chose to make a confetti cake, the buttercream didn’t have to look very neat. When the whole cake is covered with buttercream, you can add the sprinkles. This is a pretty messy part so I would suggest doing this with some type of plate underneath so this will catch all of the sprinkles that don’t get on the cake. And then there’s only one thing left to do, add a cake topper! I made mine myself and you can find the printables here.

Above you can see the end result of the confetti cake and I absolutely love it. I haven’t made a ‘real’ cake from scratch before but I will definitely try to make more like these. Maybe even a drip cake (which are freakin’ hard to make so yeah)? But for now this is/was a great cake to celebrate three years of blogging with. Over the past three years I’ve learned so much when it comes to blogging but also social media, marketing and photography. And also, thank you so much for the support! Let’s cheers to the next couple of years with a piece of this lovely confetti cake ? Are you going to try to make this confetti cake? What is your favorite flavor of cake?

Love,

Neeltje

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71 Comments

  1. helloitsjo
    April 26, 2017 / 3:06 pm

    oh my goodness this looks absolutely incredible.. I’m sooo craving a cake or cupcake right now ahh!!! and congrats on THREE YEARS!!! xxx

    Reply
  3. Lindsey G.
    April 26, 2017 / 3:48 pm

    Congrats on the three years!!
    The cake looks delicious and adorable, almost to pretty to eat.^^ xx

    Reply
  4. The Silk Sneaker
    April 26, 2017 / 4:58 pm

    Omg this cake looks so yummy and amazing! Wish I could have had this for my birthday too!

    x
    Shloka
    http:/thesilksneaker.com

    Reply
  6. Romee Cooler
    April 26, 2017 / 7:50 pm

    Looks delicious! And congrats on your blog anniversary!

    Reply
  8. Joke fransen
    April 26, 2017 / 9:51 pm

    Lekkerrrr!

    Reply
  10. zazazoobeauty
    April 28, 2017 / 9:46 am

    Gefeliciteerd! Wat ziet de taart er super feestelijk uit, erg leuk! Die ga ik onthouden voor de verjaardag van mijn dochter in juli!

    Reply
  12. nicoleswereld
    April 28, 2017 / 10:29 am

    Wauw! wat ziet dit er lekker uit zeg. en wat een mooie foto’s heb je gemaakt

    Reply
  13. notanotherfitgirl
    April 28, 2017 / 11:18 am

    Gefeliciteerd!! Wat ziet die taart er heerlijk uit! <3 Die ga ik zeker onthouden voor als er iets te vieren is.

    Reply
  14. kim
    April 28, 2017 / 3:12 pm

    Awhhh wauw!!!! Doet mij onwijs denken aan zo een disco dip ijsje haha. Dat was ook altijd een Feestje!! Gefeliciteerd ook met deze leuke en mooie mijlpaal 🙂

    Reply
  16. hillybillybeauty
    April 28, 2017 / 6:00 pm

    Oh wat lekker!!! Het is dat ik aan de lijn ben, anders was ik meteen in mijn “bak-modus” gesprongen, haha. Gefeliciteerd met je 3 jarig jubileum!

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  17. lmdenboer
    April 28, 2017 / 8:05 pm

    Dit is by far een van de vrolijkste taarten die ik gezien heb! Zoveel zin in spikkels nu!! 😉

    Reply
  20. Martiena de graaf
    April 29, 2017 / 3:37 pm

    Gefeliciteeeerd met je Blogger jubileum! Wat ziet dit er heerlijk uit op de foto’s. Op naar nog meer jaren!

    Reply
  23. capitalmonday
    May 1, 2017 / 8:45 am

    Congratulation babe! That cake Looks fabulous, hope you had a great day! Xxx

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  24. Beau Bewust
    May 1, 2017 / 9:03 am

    Gefeliciteerd! Wat ziet de taart er schitterend uit! Mijn favoriet is carrotcake!

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  25. Iris van NYTH.be
    May 1, 2017 / 9:16 am

    Wauw wat ziet dat er heeeeeerlijk uit!! Ik zou zo’n hele taart op kunnen denk ik 😉
    Mijn favo taart is eentje met chocolade en slagroom! Oh, ik denk dat ik vandaag maar eens een taartje ga bakken 🙂
    Liefs, Iris

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  26. Frederique
    May 1, 2017 / 12:12 pm

    Wat een vrolijke taart! Gefeliciteerd met je blogdag!

    Reply
  27. Kevin
    May 1, 2017 / 12:24 pm

    Oh my god wat ziet dit er heerlijk uit! Ik ben zelf niet zo’n keuken prins maar dit wil ik best wel eens proberen Hihi
    Xx

    Reply
  28. plattelandsmeisje
    May 1, 2017 / 1:51 pm

    Gefeliciteerd met je blogverjaardag! En superleuke taart/cake heb je er van gemaakt : )

    Reply
  30. Joanne
    May 1, 2017 / 10:00 pm

    Pretty!! Nog gefeliciteerd 🙂

    Reply
  31. Ezra
    May 1, 2017 / 10:41 pm

    Van harte gefeliciteerd! En wat een super gave cake! En daarnaast ook nog super mooi voor de foto’s :). Lijkt me leuk om ook eens zo’n cake te maken! Ik hou zelf niet van taart namelijk, dus cake is een goed alternatief.

    Reply
  33. Irina
    May 7, 2017 / 2:12 pm

    Aah dit ziet er heerlijk uit! En natuurlijk nog gefeliciteerd <3

    Reply
  34. Carlijn
    May 26, 2017 / 10:30 am

    Wauw, wat een mooie taart! I love discodip, haha! Ziet er heerlijk uit. En nog van harte gefeliciteerd, uiteraard! 🙂

    Reply
  35. Nicole Orriëns
    July 3, 2017 / 3:01 pm

    Wat een leuke manier om je blogverjaardag te vieren. Prachtige taart heb je gemaakt.

    Reply

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