Hi and a massive welcome to Steve's kitchen. We're going to end the series with
a big bang we're going out with a birthday cake
No ordinary cake it's going to be a rainbow pinata cake a lot of fun
and all this from that simple pound cake batter
that we made earlier in the series so you'll see how versatile
it is. Now this was a little more complicated but stick with it you'll be
able to make it I'm sure
follow me come on let's go
Now this is a six layer cake obviously one of the colors of the rainbow is going to be
missing comment down below if you spot which one it is
and I'm going to be making two at a time to make it simpler
I'm going to be using the hand mixing method if you want to see how to do
this by machine
go back and watch one of the other videos anyway let's get
on. Now you must be getting fairly used to this mixture by now we've got a
hundred and fifty grams five ounces of softened butter
in a bowl I'm putting exactly the same weight of sugar
and I'm just going to cream this together until I get a nice creamy texture
and that shouldn't take a moment if you've got nice soft butter
into that now I'm going to break three eggs again this is 150 grams
or 5 ounces of eggs and for this recipe
I'm going to indulge with a teaspoon of vanilla extract
now don't forget you don't have to put vanilla in and it is just a flavoring you
could
experiment with other different flavors and I'm going to take a whisk now
and whisk this up into a nice fluffy batter
so I've got some air into that mixture now
I've got my 150 grams 5 ounces of self
rising flour but I'm also adding in a teaspoon of baking powder
back to the wooden spoon and we're going to fold this into the mixture
Now I'm just going to divide this batter up into two different bowls
the batter is really easy to divide because we know the weight we've got 10
ounces 300 grams in this one and I'll leave 10 ounces 300
I'm going to be going for a red color in this batter so I've got a gel color nice
strong color
I'm going to put a few drops in there and then with my
wooden spoon here I'm just going to start to mix that through and whilst we
add the colors in we might as well get
our oven on its 170 Celsius that's 325 fahrenheit
so I'm pretty happy with the red batter I'm now going to put some yellow
into the second batter mix and we'll give this one a mix through too
when you're happy with your cake batter colours
I've got myself an eight-inch round tin here
and I've greased the inside of it with some butter just going to pop a little bit of
flour in there now
I just want to coat the inside of the tin with a little bit of flour
then we're going to take our red cake batter
just pop it into the tin and then just level it across the bottom of the tin
and this is not a very deep batter
but that's okay it's going to rise nicely now try to get the batter as
even as possible across the bottom of the tin so I've got my two cakes here they're ready
to go in the oven
in my oven this takes about 18 minutes I'm going to have a golden brown top to it
don't worry about that we are going to be trimming that off let's get these
in the oven
now there
we are that's just come out the oven it is piping hot and there's a little bit
of a crust on top
but the colors underneath we're going to cut that off I need that to completely cool
down now
and we need to get on and make four more colors see you in a moment
now when you've baked all six of your colors we're going to need to level these cakes
now you can take a knife and you can just cut away if you're very careful
you get a nice level cutting but if you're lucky enough to have one of these
cake leveling tools and you can get these on eBay or Amazon dot com they're
great because they'll give you a nice
equal level now I'm not going for a very thick cake
I'm just looking for half an inch may be about 15 millimeters
because I've got six layers and I don't want this cake to be too high
and you'll see that just cuts the top layer off
you've got that beautiful red coming through now you can either eat or discard this
piece
so I'm going to get on and level the rest of my cakes. Right it's time to put this cake
together you are going to want a buttercream frosting I've made that on my site before there's
a video across there shows you how to make it
I've made about 4 cups of frosting maybe a little bit more and I've added some
lemon zest into it because I think that tastes great
now the base of the cake the purple layer I've it popped it onto a serving tray
and I've started to frost it I want a fairly thick
frosting on there and then over here we've got
our three our yellow green and you can"t see the blue actually it's under there
yellow green and blue cake now these layers I'm frosting but I'm actually
going to
leave a little hole in the middle and you'll see why come back in a moment
I'll show you why
okay here's where the fun begins the base layer is ready
I've got my yellow green and blue I've also got a three-inch cutter here now we
need to cut a circle out of the middle of this cake
whether you use a knife or a cutter like this I'm going to push this one
all the way down through to the bottom of the cake give it a good twist round
and hopefully if I'm lucky I can get it out
there you go and that is perfect you see down in there
and somebody's going to have a little cupcake so now we've got this
doughnut of a cake here and we want to gently lift this if you can get your
hands under there or use a spatula
want to lift this up onto this bottom layer level it up
and that is the bottom
section of our pinata cake now it's not a pinata unless we fill the hole up in
the middle
I've got mini M&M's I've got some freckles and regular M&M's as well
now I've mixed them up here in this bowl and we are just going to pour them
in the center of that hole so when we cut it all this will come
out so that little surprise is going to fall out when we cut the cake open the kids
are going to love it
time to put the top two layers on. So on goes my orange layer that's sealing the pinata
and then finally the red layer and you can see
why I didn't want to make this too thick layers because it is a huge cake
as it is now I'll just line the cake up then I'm going to
butter frost the outside of the cake as well okay
I took my buttercream frosting and I put a thin layer on this cake and then
popped it in the fridge
and that's firmed up a little bit it's going to make it easier to cover. Now if you watched
the video the other day you saw I made a nutella frosting
that was actually the video just before this one I made up a little bit more
and I'm going to be popping it onto this cake and getting a nice
smooth layer reasonably smooth layer of frosting over the top of the cake
now you see the coating doesn't have to be perfect because we're going to be putting
candies on the
outside of this cake as well now I don't know whether you have nerds
but I'll just put some in my hands they're almost like hundreds of thousands but
really big and I'm going to be using those while the icing is still wet
we're going to sprinkle them
over the top and this is just going to further add a wonderful Rainbow effect
to our cake. Now decorating the
outside of the cake is going to be a little bit tricky you may want a friend to help you
I'm going to get on and finish the outside come back in a moment and have a look
now look at that that is my pinata cake and don't forget that's
rainbows inside its going to look fantastic cut open that's going to a birthday Party
What do you think do you like the look of it? Now I know getting the freckles on the side is a
little bit tricky I'll show you how I did that
wasn't easy but it was a lot of fun now I'm going to pop that down there of course I'm
going to show you some photographs now of what that looks like inside
here is that cake look inside the way the candies came out
now the people I made this for didn't know the candies were inside it was a great
surprise
It's a fantastic idea hope you try this one yourself sometime
little bit of extra work but well worth it
I hope you've enjoyed the series it's a lot of fun
all that from just a pound cake isn't it just marvelous
I mean you look now back at what we've done
with that one recipe I'll put some pictures up here now it's been a lot of
fun I hope you've enjoyed it please share the love give this one the thumbs up
and I'll see you next time be good
now I know some of the keen bakers out there
are going to want to make this cake and I decided I'm going to make a competition
around it
so if you bake it in the meantime get lots of nice photographs I'm going to announce the
competition in the next few days
and they'll be some great goodies to be won so
look out for that stay tuned as always I love to hear your comments down below
be good see you shortly take care