Igloo cake - Winter wonderland

Celebrating this Christmas season with this Igloo cake and cute fondant animals.  This cake is extra special because my 10 years old daughter Rithika made all the fondant characters. I'm not going to change my fondant artist from now on. 

I baked three 6" chocolate cakes, soaked each layers with homemade orange syrup and filled it with chocolate sour cream frosting. After the crumb coat, I covered it with fondant and created the igloo design with a fondant roller. Rithika created the characters with the remaining fondant and thats it. We finished the whole cake from baking to decorating, under 3 hours :)

I used ,

• three 6inch cake pan
• Chocolate sour cream frosting 
• Orange syrup to soak the layers
• 24oz package fondant 
• wilton color mist shimmering food color spray- Silver 

Chocolate cake 

I used one pan chocolate cake recipe from All recipes. The cake was extremely moist and had a very rich flavor.

Orange syrup

Heat 1 cup orange juice and 1 cup sugar in a sauce pan. Allow to cool.

Chocolate sour cream frosting

3/4 cup softened salted butter
1/2 cup Hershey's unsweetened cocoa powder + 1 tablespoon, sifted well

2tbsp strong coffee, at room temperature
3 3/4 cups powdered sugar, sifted 

3/4 cup sour cream
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Place all ingredients into the bowl of a stand mixer. Stir on low to combine. Scrape sides and mix again. Then whip on high for 30 seconds to 1 minute to get a completely smooth and creamy frosting. 

Enjoy,

Lena