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Colourful Mexican Pinata Cake

Looking for an exciting kids birthday cake? Then go no further! And it's MUCH easier than you think! - by Mel Burge
  • 09 Sep 2019
Colourful Mexican Pinata Cake
Prep: 100 Minutes - Cook: 90 Minutes - Easy - Serves 24
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TIP! We used liquorice-all-sorts, Skittles, M&M’s, jelly beans and wrapped lolly mix to fill cake and Wilton and Chefmasters food colouring gels. Disposable piping bag are available from major supermarkets. 

Ingredients

3 x 440g boxes golden butter cake mix

500g mixed lollies

BASE FROSTING

250g unsalted butter, chopped, at room temperature

2 ½ cups icing sugar mixture

1 tablespoon milk

COLOURED FROSTING

500g unsalted butter, chopped, at room temperature

5 cups icing sugar mixture

2 tablespoons milk

Sky blue, electric orange, pink, leaf green and lemon yellow food colouring gels

5-pack Multix Piping Bags with nozzles

Method

  1. Grease three x 22cm round cake pans. Line bases and sides with baking paper. 

  2. Prepare cake mixes, one at a time, according to packet directions, reserving icing sachets for another use. Spoon each into a prepared pan. Smooth over tops. 

  3. Cook two cakes in a moderately slow oven (160C) for about 45 minutes, or until cooked when tested. Remove. Stand in pans for 20 minutes. Transfer each to a wire rack to cool. Repeat with remaining cake. 

  4. To make base frosting, beat butter in a large bowl of an electric mixer until pale. Beat in sugar, ½ cup at a time, until smooth. Beat in milk.

  5. Trim the tops of cakes to sit flat. 

  6. Using an 11cm round cutter, cut out the centre of two of the cakes. Sandwich together, on a cake board, with 1/3 cup frosting.  Fill centre with lollies. 

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  7. Spread 1/3 cup frosting over top of cake. Invert remaining cake on top to enclose lollies. Spread remaining frosting over top and side. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.

  8. To make coloured frosting, beat butter in a large bowl of an electric mixer until pale. Beat in sugar, ½ cup at a time, until smooth. Beat in milk. Divide evenly among five bowls. Tint each bowl with a different colouring. Mix well. 

  9. Transfer blue frosting to one of the piping bags fitted with the plain nozzle from the pack (5mm in diameter). Starting from the base, pipe a 2cm border around cake. Repeat around the edge on top of cake. Remove and wash piping nozzle. 

  10. Repeat process with orange, pink, green and yellow frostings, using a clean piping bag fitted with same clean nozzle.   

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Mel Burge
Mel Burge
Mel Burge is a contributor to New Idea Food. She has a passion for all things food but specialises in baking and cake decorating. Mel loves to travel the world, eat delicious food and drink cocktails with her friends.

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