6 cake with buttercream decorating frosting Recipes

cake mix of your choice (regular size), butter, softened, shortening, sugar (about 3 lb), vanilla extract, salt, milk, blue, yellow and green gel , paste or liquid food coloring

cake, flour, buckwheat flour (optional, sub 50 g cake flour if not using ), mesquite flour (optional, sub 30 g buckwheat flour if not using ), baking soda, baking powder, salt, butter, at room temperature, granulated sugar, brown sugar, canola oil, dark cocoa powder, kahlua flavouring (optional, add 15 g of instant espresso powder if not using ), vanilla, eggs, semisweet chocolate, chopped, buttermilk, cold brewed espresso, kahlua liqueur, icing sugar, dark cocoa powder, shortening, cream cheese, soft, instant espresso powder, kahlua, salt, finishing, prepared vanilla buttercream frosting, melted chocolate ganache and chocolate covered coffee beans, for decoration.

margarine , such as blue bonnet, at room temperature, plus more to grease pans, two 1-lb boxes confectioners sugar , boxes reserved, eggs, at room temperature, cake flour, plus more to dust pans, vanilla extract, buttercream frosting , recipe follows, white cream decorator frosting , recipe follows, special equipment : cake boards for each tier, butter, at room temperature, sugar, light cream or milk, clear vanilla extract, white vegetable shortening, such as crisco, sugar, salt, clear vanilla extract

chocolate cake mix (i used duncan hines dark chocolate fudge cake mix), eggs, vegetable oil, masala chai tea concentrate (recipe below ), flour, ginger buttercream frosting (recipe below ), chocolate chips (optional) or chocolate shavings, for decoration (optional), cinnamon stick, whole cardamom pod, allspice berries, star anise, fresh ginger , thin slice, black tea leaves, half-and-half, water, unsalted butter, at room temperature, sugar, whole milk, fresh ginger, minced