Mini Floral Ombre Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

Cake
18 1/4 ounces French vanilla cake mix
10 drops food coloring (purple)
Butter cream frosting
1 cup butter
2 cups powdered sugar
2 teaspoons milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 pinch salt
1 -2 drop food coloring (purple)

Preparation

For the cake: In a bowl, mix cake mix, eggs, water, vegetable oil per box directions.
Separate evenly into 4 different bowls.
Add purple food coloring to each bowl, each bowl with varying amounts so you get 4 different shades of purple; mix well.
Pour each bowl into separate baking pans.
Bake at 350F for 15mins or follow the box directions.
After the cake cools, use a small circular cookie cutter to make round cakes from each shade of purple.
To make buttercream frotsting, whip 2 sticks of butter with an electric hand mixer.
Add powdered sugar, milk, vanilla, salt , and a tiny amount of purple food color; mix well with an electric hand mixer.
To build the ombre cake, place one cake down, pipe in the buttercream frosting.
Place next shade and repeat until you have a stack of 4.
For the top of the cake, pipe in a design/shape of your liking.