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My Favourite Cake Recipe – Piñata Cake
By Sarah Walton Y9 (written during the first lockdown)
I do baking quite often, at least Here is a step-by-step guide on make the buttercream. For this,
once a week at the moment, as how to make a Piñata Cake. you’ll need icing sugar and butter in
there’s not much to do. Recently, I the ratio of 7:5. I usually use around
found a recipe for a Piñata Cake. 1. First, preheat your oven to 140g icing sugar and 100g butter.
I’ve always wanted to try this, so I 180⁰C/160⁰C for a fan oven/gas Mix this together and add a few
gave it a go. A Piñata Cake is where, mark 4, and line your two cake tins drops of vanilla extract (you can also
when you cut into the cake, there with baking paper. add food colouring to this if you want
are sweets inside that fall out, like 2. In your mixing bowl, weigh it to be coloured). If you don’t want to
a piñata. You can decorate the cake out 300g caster sugar and 300g make buttercream, ready-made icing
however you want: I made mine look butter. Mix these together until or frosting can work too.
like the Gruffalo for my brother’s 7th smooth. 11. Once the cakes are cooled,
Birthday, and we had a small party at 3. In a cup, use a fork to whisk take them out of the tins. Use the
home, with themed activities for him the eggs. Slowly add these to the wire cake cutter to slice one of
to do. The cake itself is just a plain mix, stirring in between. You need the cakes in half, so you have two
vanilla cake, but even though it’s to stir this quite fast so that the egg thinner cakes (mine were quite thin
quite simple, I love the recipe. Here doesn’t curdle. and almost broke at this point, so be
are the ingredients for a Piñata Cake 4. Now mix in the vanilla extract careful here).
(some can be changed depending on (you could also use other flavourings 12. Take your cookie cutter and
personal preferences): like lemon extract, or add 2 tbsp cut a hole out of the middle of the
300g golden caster sugar of cocoa powder if you want a other, thicker cake. This is where the
300g unsalted butter, room chocolate cake). sweets will go.
temperature 5. Weigh out and sieve the self- 13. You can now start
4 large eggs raising flour and add it to the bowl. assembling your cake. Use a palette
1.5tsp vanilla extract Fold the flour into the mixture and knife (or a normal, blunt knife, if you
300g self-raising flour (sieved) mix it until combined. don’t have one) and spread a layer of
Food colouring (optional) 6. Now you have the cake mix, buttercream onto one of the thinner
Buttercream for filling (recipe split it in half, spooning one half of cakes. Carefully place the thicker
below) the mixture into a separate bowl. cake, with a hole in it, on top of this.
Sweets for the Piñata aspect 7. You should have two bowls of 14. Now, you can pour your
Whatever icing you want to use mix. This is where you can add food sweets into the hole. I used M&Ms,
for the decoration. colouring, although it is optional. I but any small sweet will do.
used red (this came out pink when 15. Spread another layer of
You will also need: mixed) and orange for mine. Add buttercream around the top of the
Scales enough drops of food colouring to cake ring, and carefully place the last
Mixing bowl (you will need an colour the mix. thin cake on the top.
extra bowl for separating between 8. Once your cake mix is ready 16. Now is where you can get
tins) for the oven, spoon the mix from one creative – you can decorate the cake
Wooden spoon/spatula for mixing bowl into a tin, and the mix from the however you want. I used chocolate
(you can also use an electric mixer if other bowl into the other tin. Use the icing and fondant to make mine look
you have one, but I prefer mixing by spatula to even out the mixture in the like the Gruffalo for my brother’s
hand) tin. birthday. This is what mine looked
Sieve 9. Put the cakes into the oven. like!
2x 20cm diameter cake tins They should take around 20 minutes When you cut into the cake, the
Wire cake cutter to cook, but to be sure, stick a sweets should fall out like this:
3inch diameter round cookie skewer into the cake, and if it comes
cutter out clean, the cake is cooked. Take
Cake board them out of the oven and leave to
cool. Now enjoy!
10. While the cakes are cooling,
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