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Confetti cake

Funfetti fun! Hundreds and thousands make the inside of this cake just as interesting as its lime green outside icing. Kids will love this one at birthdays! - by Chantal Walsh
  • 27 Oct 2016
Confetti cake
Cook: 85 Minutes - easy - Serves 16 - Vegetarian - nut-free - pregnancy-safe
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Funfetti fun! Hundreds and thousands make the inside of this cake just as interesting as its lime green outside icing. Kids will love this one at birthdays!

Ingredients

250 g unsalted butter, chopped, at room temperature

1 ¼ cups caster sugar

2 tsp vanilla extract

4 eggs, at room temperature

⅓ cup milk

2 ⅓ cups self-raising flour

½ cup hundreds and thousands

Extra hundreds and thousands, for decorating

Butter frosting

250 g unsalted butter, chopped, at room temperature

2 ½ cups icing sugar mixture

green food colouring gel (lighter green), to tint

Method

  1. Grease two 20cm round cake pans. Line bases and sides with baking paper, extending paper 3cm above pan edges.
  2. Beat butter, sugar and vanilla in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fuffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, until mixture is fully combined.
  3. Add milk and sifted four in two batches. Stir until combined. Stir in hundreds and thousands. Divide mixture evenly between two prepared pans. Smooth over tops of each until even.
  4. Cook in a moderately slow oven (160C) for about 40 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into centre of each cake comes out clean. Stand in pans for 10 minutes. Turn out onto a wire rack to cool.
  5. To make butter frosting, beat butter in a small bowl with an electric mixer until pale and fuffy. Gradually add sugar, half a cup at a time, beating until well combined. Tint frosting green with coloured gel.
  6. Place one layer of cake onto a serving plate. Spread top with half a cup of butter frosting. Top with remaining cake layer. Spread remaining butter frosting over top and side of cake.
  7. Press hundreds and thousands halfway up side of cake for confetti decoration.
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