Max and Ruby Cake

cake for ruby and her little brother max

I wanted to recreate the cake’s from a childhood TV show called Max and Ruby. A common trend is to actually decorate one cake it styles of both Ruby and Max, so I made one cake a split it in half to create both designs.

I wanted the inside to feel like a fusion of both Max and Ruby’s cakes. The inside of the cake is a funfetti cake with chocolate pudding, fresh raspberries, and oreo cookie crumbles.

Ingredients

For the Funfetti Cake

• 240 g flour

• 1 teaspoon baking powder

• 1 teaspoon baking soda

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 300 g sugar

• 225 g unsalted butter (2 sticks)

• 3 eggs

• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

• 240 g of buttermilk

• 50 g rainbow sprinkles (1/3 cup)

For the Chocolate pudding:

• 28 g (⅓ cup) Dutch-process cocoa powder

• 35 g (5 Tbsp) cornstarch

• 300 g (1¼ cups) heavy cream

• 4 large egg yolks, beaten

• 300 g (1¼ cups) whole milk

• 142 g (⅔ cup, packed) turbinado or light brown sugar

• 1.5 g (¼ tsp) kosher salt

• 113 g (4 oz) milk chocolate, chopped

• 5 g (1 tsp) vanilla extract

For the Swiss Meringue Buttercream

• 5 egg whites, at room temperature

• 452 g (2 cups) unsalted butter, at room temperature

• 300 g (1 ½ cups) granulated sugar

• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

For the Chocolate Buttercream

• 170 g (6 oz) semisweet chocolate, chopped into small pieces of roughly the same size

• 226 g (1 cup) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature

• 250 g (2 cups) powdered sugar

• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract

• ¼ teaspoon salt

For the Final Assembly and Decoration

• 1 recipe of funfetti cake

• 1 recipe of chocolate pudding

• Oreo cookie crumbs

• Raspberries

• Gummy Worms

• Rainbow Sprinkles

• candles

Instructions