Surprise piñata football cake

• Refrigerated

  • 8 Egg, large

• Condiments

  • 1/2 tsp Food colouring paste, green
  • 1 Little food colouring paste
  • 4 tbsp Sieved apricot jam

• Baking & Spices

  • 200 g Brown sugar, soft light
  • 200 g Caster sugar
  • 300 g Chocolate balls or foil-covered chocolate footballs
  • 50 g Cocoa powder
  • 300 g Icing sugar
  • 1/2 tsp Peppermint extract
  • 500 g Ready-to-roll icing, green
  • 350 g Ready-to-roll icing, white
  • 100 g Ready-to-roll icing, black
  • 350 g Self rising flour

• Dairy

  • 550 g Butter, unsalted
  • 1 tbsp Milk milk mill-k one of the most widely used ingredients

• Other

  • novelty candles, optional

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Description

Ingredients

• 200g unsalted butter
• 200g soft light brown sugar
• 4 large egg
• 150g self-raising flour
• 50g cocoa powder, sieved
• 1 tbsp milk Milk mill-kOne of the most widely used ingredients, milk is often referred to as a complete food. While cow…
• 200g unsalted butter
• 200g caster sugar
• 4 large egg
• 200g self-raising flour
• ½ tsp peppermint extract
• about ½ to 1 tsp green food colouring paste
• 150g unsalted butter, softened
• 300g icing sugar, sieved
• 300g chocolate balls or foil-covered chocolate footballs (available online)
• 4 tbsp sieved apricot jam, warmed
• 500g green ready-to-roll icing
• 350g white ready-to-roll icing
• 100g black ready-to-roll icing
• a little food colouring paste, choose team colours
• novelty candles, optional

Directions

• Heat the oven to180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease and base line a 20cm round cake tin with baking parchment. To make the chocolate cake, put the butter into a bowl and beat until soft. Add all the remaining ingredients and beat well until light and creamy. Spoon into the tin and spread level. Bake in the oven for about 45 mins or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. Cool. When cold, slice the top off the cake to make it level.
• To make the mint cake, grease and base line your 20cm cake tin with baking parchment. Put the butter into a bowl and beat until soft. Add the remaining ingredients and beat well until light and creamy. Spoon into the tin and spread level. Bake in the oven for about 45 mins or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. Cool. Do not slice the top level as it needs to be rounded.
• To make the butter icing, put the butter into a bowl and beat until soft. Gradually beat in the icing sugar. Slice the chocolate and mint cakes in half horizontally so you have four layers. Using an 8cm round cutter, stamp a circle from the centre of each layer. Place the bottom layer of chocolate cake on a 25cm cake board. Spread with a little butter icing. Place the bottom green layer on top. Spread with butter icing and place the other chocolate layer on top. Spread with more icing and place the rounded green sponge on top.
• Fill the centre hole with sweets, almost to the top. Take one of the 8cm green sponge pieces and slice in half horizontally. Place one piece on the cake to cover the hole containing the sweets. Spread the top with the remaining butter icing. Roll out about 300g of the white fondant icing to a 20cm circle and place on top of the cake.
• Brush the sides of the cake with apricot jam. Measure the circumference of the cake and the depth. Add 2.5cm to the depth measurement. Using these measurements roll out the green fondant to a long strip. (You may find it easier to do two shorter strips). Attach the strip around the cake. Use scissors snip around the top edge to represent grass.
• Make a cardboard template of a pentagon (5 sides). Roll out the black icing and cut out six pentagons. Place them on the cake as for a football. If you wish to stick them in place use a little icing sugar mixed with water.
• With the remaining white icing trimmings make a scarf and paint with food colouring in your team colours. Drape the scarf over the edge of the cake. Add candles as desired.

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