Whimsical Cotton Candy Watercolor Cake

I designed and created this Cotton Candy Cake recipe as part of a collaboration with Amoretti. The brief was to make a dessert using their Cotton Candy Artisan Flavor, which I used to flavor the cake and buttercream in this recipe.

In addition to tasting just like cotton candy, I wanted this cake to have the whimsical look of cotton candy as well. I tinted the cake batter pink and blue to create a marble effect for the cake layers. Then, I tinted the buttercream in a pastel color palette and used it to frost a watercolor effect on the cake and swirl piping. I finished the look by topping the cake with actual cotton candy.

The recipe and decorating tutorial can be found here.