Graduation Photo Album Cake Recipe

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Graduation Photo Album Cake
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Ingredients
22
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Nutrition
1307
Calories
Total time
85
Minutes
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Ingredients:

  • 1-3/4 cups sugar, divided
  • 1/4 cup poppy seeds
  • 1-1/4 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • buttercream frosting:
  • 1 cup plus 2 tbsp butter, softened
  • 6 tbsp shortening
  • 1-1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 6 cups confectioners' sugar
  • 1/2 cup plus 1 tbsp milk
  • paste food coloring in school colors
  • yellow gift wrap for covering board
  • clear cellophane for covering board
  • 4-x5-inch photo of graduate (laminated if desired)

Directions:

  1. Directions: Cover board with gift wrap, taping wrap on the back side of board. Cover wrapped board with cellophane in the same way.
  2. Prepare cake and frosting according to following recipe:
  3. In a bowl, cream butter and 1-1/2 cups sugar. Add egg yolks and beat well. Combine flour, poppy seeds, lemon peel, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
  4. Add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk.
  5. In a small bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks form. Beat in remaining sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, until stiff peaks form. Fold into batter.
  6. Pour into a greased and floured 13-in. x 9-in. baking pan. Bake at 325° for 45-50 minutes or until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool on 10 minutes. Remove from pan to wire rack to cool cake completely. Transfer to covered board.
  7. Trace book pattern twice onto waxed paper. Cut out. On one long side of cake, position patterns so that the long straight edges sit on the board and the wide ends meat at the center of cake. Secure with toothpicks. With a serrated knife an following patterns, cut off top of cake. Remove cake top and save for another use. Repeat on other long side.
  8. For frosting, cream butter, shortening and vanilla in a bowl. Beat in confectioners' sugar and milk.
  9. Place 1 cup frosting in a bowl for border around cake. Tint with food coloring for main school color. Place 1/3 cup frosting in another bowl and tint with second color. Place 1 tablespoon frosting in a bowl and leave white. Set bowls aside. Frost the cake top and sides with the remaining frosting.
  10. If photo is not laminated, wrap it in plastic wrap. Place photo in center of one page of cake.
  11. Cut a small hole in a corner of pastry or plastic bag. Insert round tip #3. Fill with main school-color frosting. Referring to photo above, pipe CLASS OF ____ on page without photo.
  12. Insert drop flower tip #107. Pipe a rope border around bottom edges of cake. Pipe flowers at corners of photo. Randomly pipe five flowers above and three flowers below writing.
  13. Fill another bag with reserved white frosting. Cut a small hole in corner; pipe a dot in center of flowers.
  14. Prepare a third bag; insert star tip #18 and fill with second school-color frosting. Pipe designs above and below photo. Pipe vines on each side of the flower groups.
  15. Insert leaf tip #67. Pipe leaves randomly near flowers. Remove photo before cutting cake. Yield: 12-15 servings.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 1307.36 Kcal (5474 kJ)
Calories from fat 366.5 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 40.72g 63%
Cholesterol 151.99mg 51%
Sodium 260.54mg 11%
Potassium 155.86mg 3%
Total Carbs 224.1g 75%
Sugars 134.79g 539%
Dietary Fiber 0.65g 3%
Protein 11.33g 23%
Vitamin C 0.7mg 1%
Vitamin A 0.4mg 13%
Iron 0.7mg 4%
Calcium 121mg 12%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 333.48 Kcal (1396 kJ)
Calories from fat 93.49 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 10.39g 63%
Cholesterol 38.77mg 51%
Sodium 66.46mg 11%
Potassium 39.76mg 3%
Total Carbs 57.16g 75%
Sugars 34.38g 539%
Dietary Fiber 0.17g 3%
Protein 2.89g 23%
Vitamin C 0.2mg 1%
Vitamin A 0.1mg 13%
Iron 0.2mg 4%
Calcium 30.9mg 12%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 29.4
    Points
  • 36
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • low sodium

Bad Points

  • High in Sugar

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