Mini Floral Ombre Cake

• Cake
• 18 1/4 ounces French vanilla cake mix
• 10 drops food coloring (purple)
• Butter cream frosting
• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 2 teaspoons milk
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 -2 drop food coloring (purple)

1. For the cake: In a bowl, mix cake mix, eggs, water, vegetable oil per box directions.
2. Separate evenly into 4 different bowls.
3. Add purple food coloring to each bowl, each bowl with varying amounts so you get 4 different shades of purple; mix well.
4. Pour each bowl into separate baking pans.
5. Bake at 350F for 15mins or follow the box directions.
6. After the cake cools, use a small circular cookie cutter to make round cakes from each shade of purple.
7. To make buttercream frotsting, whip 2 sticks of butter with an electric hand mixer.
8. Add powdered sugar, milk, vanilla, salt , and a tiny amount of purple food color; mix well with an electric hand mixer.
9. To build the ombre cake, place one cake down, pipe in the buttercream frosting.
10. Place next shade and repeat until you have a stack of 4.
11. For the top of the cake, pipe in a design/shape of your liking.

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Taken from www.food.com/recipe/mini-floral-ombre-cake-531336 (may not work)