Half Birthday Cake (Serves 4-8) Recipe posted by Something Swanky Pin Share Tweet Email SomethingSwanky is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you. When you want the big, beautiful cake– but you don’t want all the leftovers. This Half Birthday Cake is a fun, small-batch alternative to a traditional layered birthday cake! I knew I wanted a BIG, beautiful, layered chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and vanilla buttercream filling for my birthday. But I also knew I wasn’t going to have many people eating it. Between diets, food sensitivities, and the fact that my parents showed up with an entire pie (so freaking good). I could have ended up with a LOT of leftover birthday cake. So I preemptively solved the problem by making only half of a cake! It’s so much easier than you would think! I even made you a video to show you how I did it. All of the birthday fun with half of the leftover cake. A FEW THINGS TO NOTE ABOUT THIS RECIPE: CHILL, CHILL, CHILL! The key to any layered cake is to keep it chilled every step of the way. But when working with HALF of a cake (with half the stability), it was especially crucial to have a completely chilled cake from start to finish. In the video, you can see my cake is leaning a little bit. That’s because I didn’t have the time to let it chill completely! If I had taken the time to chill it after each step, I’d EASILY have a perfectly straight standing cake.I’d also highly recommend keeping it chilled up until it’s time to serve!I used my favorite doctored up cake mix recipe for the cake. And it makes A LOT of cake. As you can see in the video, it made two VERY thick 10-inch rounds. Which was a little too much to stack in 4 layers, so I only used 3. If you use my recipe, you can just save half of one cake by wrapping it in plastic wrap and freezing it. But FYI: if you were to simply bake a cake using a cake mix according to the directions on the box (instead of my fancied-up version), you should be able to stack all four layers with no problem. LOOKING FOR THE RECIPE?? I’M SHARING IT ON MY OTHER BLOG, KEAT’S EATS ALONG WITH SOME EXTRA STEP-BY-STEP FROSTING PHOTOS.CLICK HERE TO VIEW, PRINT, OR SAVE THE FULL RECIPE Need More BIRTHDAY Inspo?! CHECK THIS OUT: 100+ IMPRESSIVE BIRTHDAY CAKES
