Yield: 16-20

Author: Jack Rogers

A beautiful cake inspired by the geode rock! A fun cake to make that impresses all!

How to cook MARBLED GEODE CAKE

Bake 9 pounds of vanilla cake and split it evenly between three 8 inch round cake pans. Set aside to cool completely.
Prepare Swiss Meringue buttercream. Set aside.
Level and cut cakes in half leaving you 6 layers in total.
Fill only 5 layers of cake with Swiss Meringue Buttercream and crumb coat the cake and final coat it.
Knead white fondant until pliable and by using a toothpick, make streaks of black food coloring on the fondant. Then knead it together until some streaks appear on the top of the fondant. This makes it marbled. Roll it out to an eighth of an inch and cover the chilled cake. Chill cake.
Cut up some clear rock candy and set aside
Using a food-safe marker, draw where you're going to cut the cake for the geode. Cut it with a serrated knife and ice the empty space with leftover buttercream.
Place the rock candys in the place you cut until you can only see the rock candy.
Dilute some blue food coloring with white rum or any other clear alcohol and paint in the center of the geode. Add more blue food coloring to deepen the color and paint in the center leaving some of the rock candy a lighter blue so there are different shades.
Dilute some gold luster dust with white rum or any other clear alcohol and paint the edges of the geode with a abstract/wavy line. Don't make the line of gold perfect because geodes aren't perfect.
Finally, splatter paint the cake with the leftover gold mixture.

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