This is how I did it.Raibow Surprise Cake
160g butter
3 eggs
2C flour
1/8 tsp salt
1C sugar
3T milk
2t baking pdr
4 food colourings
Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, beat well. Add milk and all dry ingredients. Mix.
Divide mixture into 4 bowls, add food colouring to each one to make different colours.
Grease a round tin.
Add spoonfuls of each colour to the tin, one spoonful at a time till no more mixtures left. With a wet spoon smooth the top of cake.
Cook at 180 for 45 mins.
To create the pinata cake....
I sliced out top of cake, and filled with coins/pebbles/m&m's and iced around outised of it.
Then I needed to create a chocolate cover, so I greased the inside of a metal bowl that fitted over the cake, and put the bowl in the freezer.
I melted about 400g of dark chocolate.
Then, taking the bowl out of the freezer, I smoothed the melted chocolate over its inside surface till it was all covered and as even as I could get it, and then ut bowl (with chocolate now) back in freezer.
Then..... took bowl out of freezer when chocolate was hard. Carefully tipped it over the cake, and the chocolate slipped out. If it sticks, you can use a wet teatowel and heat up the outside of the bowl if necessary..
Then, I melted more chocolate (about 50g) and used it as glue to stick pebbles/m&ms/cake decorating shapes to outside of chocolate shell.
Then I put some bluetac to the side, and stuck 10 candles in - so at least she had something to blow out!
Then, using a hammer or, in our case, a rolling pin, Miss now 10 smashed it to smithereens!
All b-day party kids were suitably impressed!
A lot of time consuming work, but was worth it inthe end.. It isn't a hard cake to make, just have to have the right equipment!
