I told you a couple of days ago that I had an awesome collab coming up . . . and to announce it properly, this is a Skittles collab with Elise from the YouTube channel My Cupcake Addiction!  Whoop!  She is a fellow YT baker, and creates amazing recipes for people to follow along with on her channel.  

 

I haven’t had the fortune of getting to meet Elise in person yet, but through our email communications I can tell you that she is a very talented baker and decorator, a mom of two young boys, and is an amazingly hard worker!  Her days must be SO busy!  I’m so glad that she was able to take the time to work together with us, in order to put my flavoured cake into decorated form. 

 

This cake truly tastes like Skittles.  Boiling the Skittles down to a simple syrup preserves the flavour of the candy, but eliminates the chewiness that you might not be accustom to in a cake.  I thought about using the syrup in the buttercream as well, but I figured that I would need so much of it to get a strong Skittles flavour that I would be stuck with a super runny icing.  So, instead, I used my food processor and blended the Skittles up to a fine powder and substituted a portion of the icing sugar for the Skittles powder.  It ended up working out perfectly, and tastes just like a Skittles cake should!  Skittles are a fabulous addition to a plain vanilla cake.

 

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