My dad turned 60 this year, so I really wanted to make him a birthday cake! He really likes 2CV cars and playing cards with his friends, so I combined them for the theme of the cake. He has a blue 2CV car that’s why I made 3 different shades of blue cars. He really liked his cake 🥰
To start I baked two vanilla and two chocolate 6″ cakes. For the filling, I made a simple strawberry mousse, which is just whipped cream with strawberry jam to taste. And I cut up some strawberries also for the filling. Then made some Swiss meringue buttercream. I started stacking the cake by laying down the first vanilla cake and piped a border of buttercream around to keep the strawberries inside the cake. Then I spread some strawberry jam on the cake and placed the cut-up strawberries on top. To fill the gaps between the strawberries and for more filling I spread the strawberry mousse over the strawberries, flush to the buttercream border. Then I layered the first chocolate cake on top and pressed a little bit. Then I repeated the filling steps and alternated the second vanilla and chocolate cake. When the cake was stacked I crumb coated it with the buttercream and put it in the fridge to chill and harden. When the buttercream on the cake wasn’t sticky anymore I iced the cake a final time using a cake scraper.Â