My Crazy Kids

My Crazy Kids

Friday 25 October 2013

Project Code Name:Birthday Cake

I wanted to push myself one step further for my son's birthday than I did for my daughter's a few weeks ago.

I read a blog post not long back about baking different cakes, their post was mainly about a piñata cake which to be honest with you I really took to the idea of.

I baked a simple but lovely cake for daughters birthday but I thought to myself why not take up the challenge of a piñata cake, so I did and here's how it went.

My eldest lad was at school and my youngest lad, who's birthday it was, kept going on about 'his birthday cake' how could I not bake him one now.

I will admit to you all before we go any further, I did use packet cake mix, I ain't good enough yet to use proper ingredients lol.
I knew in my mind how the final outcome was meant to look but getting there was going to be the challenge.

I knew I needed a top whole layer of cake and also a bottom whole layer of cake. I knew i needed butter icing inbetween the layers and the outside of the cake needed butter icing too.



The middle of the cake was the tricky bit. The space where all the lovely sweets would sit, just waiting to be set free.


I baked the top and bottom of the cake and added orange essence to the mix to give it a extra bit of taste.


The middle of the cake I added melted chocolate and again orange essence to the mixture for something extra.

I cut a circle shape out of the middle layer, layered the middle on to the bottom of the cake put the sweets in the hole added the top layer and the cake came together.


To finish offI i made red butter icing and pasted it on and around the cake then finished it off by adding decorations.
Project : Birthday Cake was a success.



I was even a little creative with some left over mix, I made cupcakes yeah me lol.



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18 comments:

  1. Wow, this is impressive, said the blogger who always cheats and buys birthday cakes! #PoCoLo

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  2. What an awesome cake!!! I also always cheat and buy my caked from the supermarket lol!

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  3. oooh I've never heard of a pinata cake, though I will admit when I first read this I thought it said piranah cake, oh yeh you're daughter would have loved that! I did make a squid cake for my daughter once! Now I regress, lovely looking cake, what a treat!

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  4. Glad I impressed u all lol @Anne next project piranha cake lol

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  5. that looks delicious!! well done you it looks like a corker!

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  6. What a great idea! Love the idea of a surprise inside.

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  7. That's a brilliant cake - far better than my effort for POD's birthday last year. Was hard work too, am contemplating buying one this year! Sounds like you enjoyed it too, you must have been so proud!

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  8. What a lovely thing to do - and it doesn't matter it was packet, it's such a great thought. Thanks for linking to PoCoLo, Happy Birthday to your son :)

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  9. Cake and sweets at once - that is the ultimate treat!

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  10. very clever, looks great..popping over from #PoLoCo xx

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  11. Well done, it's so rewarding knowing you've made their cake yourself, I bet he loved it. Piñata cakes are great fun.

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  12. Thanks everyone for comments its was fun to make I was proud of it and everyone enjoyed it lol

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  13. Great idea! My boys would love finding the sweets inside :) #WhatstheStory

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  14. Well done you, you must have been so proud. It looks like such a good cake, I bet it tasted fantastic too. Things you make yourself always do even if they are a bit of a challenge! Thank you for sharing with #whatsthestory

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  15. Thanks so muck for linking up to Celebration Cakes And Bakes :)

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  16. What a great cake, love that you have filled the middle with sweets, I tend to pile mine all onto the top.

    Angela

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