Well, we’ve graduated from Minecraft Cakes to Fortnite Cakes over here. It was my nephew’s 10th birthday on Easter Sunday, so our festive holiday dessert was a V Bucks Birthday Cake. I don’t know anything about Fortnite (except randomly that there are celebratory dances in it?!) but my brother and nephew explained that V Bucks are like the tokens/currency of the game.

Of course a quick Google image search showed me what they were, and many people before me have made a wide variety of V Bucks cakes, cupcakes and cookies. My friend Andrew also told me that in the game when you get V Bucks, gold coins explode everywhere. This gave me the idea for a SECRET CHAMBER in the cake filled with chocolate loonies. This idea is stolen from Yolanda from How To Cake It, who I’ve seen add SECRET CHAMBERS to many cakes on her show.

Here’s the breakdown of how I did it, should you have the need for a Fortnite Cake in your life:

• For the cake, I baked the best chocolate cake recipe in one 8″ round pan and two 8″ square pans (jk, I don’t have two square pans, so I baked one layer at a time). I filled the round pan a little more than the square pans to make sure I had a nice thick layer for the V Bucks token.
• I mixed up a batch of My Favourite Buttercream and tinted about half bright orange (for the square cakes/platform) and the rest a light gray for the V Bucks token.
• I used a round cookie cutter to cut a circle out of the centre of each cake, setting the small cut-outs aside (you’ll need one later).
• To assemble, I placed the first square layer on a cake board, and spread orange icing over the top. I placed the second square on top, matching up the cut-outs nicely to form an empty SECRET CHAMBER. I crumb coated the entire square cake in a thin layer of orange icing, then chilled it for 30 minutes. I also placed the round layer on another cake board and crumb coated it in gray icing and chilled that too.
• I removed the cakes from the fridge and added a final, thicker layer of orange icing to the square cakes/platform. I then carefully lifted the crumb-coated token and placed it on top of the platform, lining up the holes that form the SECRET CHAMBER. I filled the SECRET CHAMBER with chocolate loonies, leaving about half an inch of space at the top. Then I took one of the small circle cut-outs of cake, trimmed it to a half inch thickness and fit it into the top of the SECRET CHAMBER. I crumb coated the top of that and chilled the whole cake again for 15 minutes. When that was chilled, I added a final, thicker layer of gray icing to the token, and placed it in the fridge to chill while I worked on the fondant.
• I made myself a template by tracing the 8″ cake pan on a piece of paper, and drawing the V and the three bracket kinda shapes that go around it. I cut those out, rolled out my white and blue fondant, placed my templates on top and used a sharp paring knife to cut out the shapes. I placed them on top of the token and pressed down ever so slightly, and there you have it! V Bucks Cake!

This wasn’t a hard cake to put together in theory, but now that I’m writing this out, I’m realizing it was just very time-consuming. I was really happy with the way it turned out, and it was super fun to cut that first big slice and watch the kids get so excited as the gold tokens came tumbling out!

Matthew’s Previous Birthday Cakes:

• 9th (I was in New Orleans so didn’t get to make his cake)
• 8th (Krabby Patty Cupcakes)
• 7th (Minecraft Checkerboard Cake)
• 6th (Lego cupcakes – not blogged – they were vanilla cupcakes with Lego block candy on top)
• 5th (Wrecking Ball Cake)
• 4th (Front-End Loader Cake)
• 3rd (Dumptruck Cake)
• 2nd (School Bus Cake…reigns supreme as most popular post on Planet Byn)