Grinch Designed Cake

Directions

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees and grease an 8″ circular pan with cooking spray and line with parchment paper. Draw or trace the grinch’s face onto your parchment paper. It’s best to cut the parchment paper to fit the pan perfectly.
• Whisk together the egg yolks and sugar until smooth. Keep the egg whites! We will need them later.
• Add the vegetable oil, milk, and vanilla to the egg yolk mixture and continue to whisk until fully combined.
• Sift in the flour and cornstarch to the wet ingredients. Then whisk until the batter is nice and smooth. Add in 2-3 drops of orange food gel.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer fit with a whisk attachment, whisk the 6 egg whites until frothy. Slowly add in the vinegar and sugar while whipping up the egg whites.
• Whisk the egg whites until stiff peaks form. This is very important! Make sure the egg whites have formed stiff peaks before adding it in to the batter in the next step.
• Fold the egg whites into the batter until everything is fully combined. Be careful not to over mix at this step. If you over mix, the egg whites will deflate and cause for runny, thin batter. Mix just until the egg whites are evenly distributed throughout.
• Remove a few scoops of batter at a time and dye it red, green, black, yellow, and white for each part of the grinch design. You only need to remove a small amount of each color but pay close attention to the design you’re tracing. You will need more green for the grinch’s face than you would for the small yellow part of his eyes.
• Place your colored batter into piping bags.
• Pipe the black outline of the grinch’s face onto the prepared pan.
• Fill in the rest of the grinch’s face, pipe his red hat, his yellow eyes, green face, etc. Once your design is made let it sit in the fridge for 5-8 minutes then pipe the uncolored batter on top to cover your design. Bake for 8-9 minutes.
• Once the designed cake has finished baking flip the cake out of the pan and peel the parchment paper off of the design as soon as it comes out of the pan. Use the remaining batter to bake two more layers of cake. Allow the cakes to cool completely. While the cakes cool, prepare the whipped cream.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer fit with the whisk attachment, whisk the cream, sugar and vanilla until stiff peaks have formed and you have reached a whipped cream consistency.
• Assemble the cake by placing a layer of cake (the undesigned cake) on the bottom, then pipe a layer of whipped cream. I added white chocolate peppermint chips throughout my layers as well, but this is optional. On top of the whipped cream place another layer of undesigned cake. Repeat this step then top the entire cake with the Grinch designed cake.
• Serve in the fridge until serving, enjoy!
• This cake can be made ahead of time but is best enjoyed fresh. If you plan to make this ahead of time, be sure too seal the cake tightly in plastic wrap to keep it fresh.