Pinata Cake! | Cupcake and Cookie

 

Today is election day which means, I get a day off! I thought I would use this time to make a...Piñata Cake!!!! If you don't know what that is, you are about to find out! Enjoy!

 

 

You will need...

 

 

360g Sweets (Skittles, Smarties, etc.)

1 tbsp Vanilla Extract

4 x Food Colouring

460g Self Raising Flour

900g Icing Sugar

460g Caster Sugar

8 Eggs

460g Butter & 450g Butter for Icing

 

Method

 

1. Preheat the oven to 180'C

2. Prepare 4 baking tins

3. Mix the sugar and butter until light and fluffy

4. Add vanilla extract

5. Mix in the eggs bit by bit

6. Sift in the flour

7. Separate the mixture into 4 bowels

8. Add food colouring

9. Put the different mixtures into each baking tin

10. Put the tins in the oven

11. Leave in for 25 minutes

12. Stir the butter and icing sugar

13. Separate the icing sugar into 4 bowels and add the food colouring

14. Keep some plain icing sugar left over

15. Take the cakes out the oven and allow to cool

16. Once the cakes have cooled, even them out

17. Cut holes in 2 of the cakes

18. Put left over icing in between the cakes

19. Put the sweets in the middle of the cake

20. Put coloured icing sugar into piping bags

21. Pipe icing around each layer and smooth with a knife

22. Enjoy!

 

 

 

I hope you enjoyed this hard but brilliant recipe and don't forget to tweet your versions to @cupcakeandcookie01

 

Cupcake and Cookie xxx