Friday was Papa’s birthday. Saturday we gathered together over at Papa & Gigi’s house to celebrate. I baked Papa a Carolina Blue cake to celebrate the occasion. I used this cake as inspiration.
First I mixed up white cake mix then separated it out into two bowls. Then I colored one with Wilton icing color Sky Blue to make Carolina blue. 
I added white batter then blue. It settles into concentric circles. 
It looked so cool when they came out of the oven! 
I looked up UNC’s logo online and drew it onto the cake. Then I filled in the lines with blue butter cream (all icing made from scratch thank you very much) and outlined it with white. 
Then I painted blue glitter gel onto the blue icing to give it sparkle. Papa LOVED his cake! 
He even went and put on his Carolina Blue shirt. Papa was really surprised when he cut into the cake. 
The inside was all fun & stripy! 
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Carolina Blue Birthday
Bless Your Heart 
TOO COOL!! It’s like tie-dye for cake!
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Oh Happy Birthday to Hal! I hope it was a good one. The cake looks amazing!
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OK. That seriously is the COOLEST cake I have ever seen. Awesome job Shannie!! You are so clever! (and I’m totally stealing that the next time I make a cake!)
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You need to move here to Auburn and we’ll open up a bakery together!
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Very cool cake! Happy birthday to your Poppa!
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That is such an awesome cake! You did a phenomenal job on it!!! I’ll have to try the striping thing sometime. Love the glitter … that really makes the design stand out! Maybe I should make an IU cake for Jeff for Fathers’ Day or his birthday. 🙂
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Your cake looks GREAT, Shanny! So glad it turned out well after the beer can cake disaster.
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Thank you so much!
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