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I am Ann Reardon
Today we are making a m&m my little pony rainbow dash cake.
This is for those of you who wanted my little pony cake, those of you who wanted an easy
cake and those of you who wanted one with no fondant.
The first thing you need to do is make three trays of chocolate cake and I'll link you
to howtocookthat.net in the description below this video to give you the recipe for that
and all of recipe quantities that you'll need for the frosting recipe as well.
I'm using a brand new frosting recipe that I invented for you today.
You'll need cream, I have a new page on my website explaining which cream to use for
those of you who aren't sure about that.
Compound white chocolate and some jelly or jello in your favourite flavour, for this
cake it's best if you choose one with a blueish colour.
Place the powdered jelly into a saucepan and add the cream.
Give it a good stir and then you want to leave it for a while so the gelatin in the jelly
to absorb moisture from the cream and go soft.
That will take about 10 minutes and leave you with a lumpy looking mixture like this.
It kind of looks a bit like the cream is off, but it not it's just the gelatin there.
Turn on the heat and then stir that until all the gelatin and the sugar and the gelatin
is dissolved and it just starts to bubble.
Now turn off the heat and add your compound white chocolate.
Keep stirring until it is all melted.
Pour the mixture into a bowl and place in the fridge for a couple of hours to cool down.
You can speed the cooling process up by putting it into a tray in the fridge instead of a
bowl if you like.
Once it is cooled it will look thick like this which is from a combination of the chocolate
setting and the gelatin setting as well.
Whip that up using an electric mixer and you'll get a beautiful smooth fluffy frosting in
the flavour of your jello.
Cover your cake board in foil and add one of your tray cakes to one side.
Make sure you cakes are completely cool and you have already leveled them off.
You'll have a space at the top and that is where we ant to add another half of your tray
cake.
Cover that whole thing in a thin layer of frosting then add your next layer of cake
on top.
I find it easiest to put the cake onto a flat tray and pull the baking paper underneath
so that the cake can just slide off onto there.
Now you need to print out a picture of rainbow dash.
And cut around it using a serrated knife.
I'll put this one in the size I am using on howtocookthat.net website so you can print
it out like that.
You can of course use a picture of pinkie pie, princess luna, rarity or whoever you'd
want instead
If you want to make a cake for less people then you can use just one layer of cake instead
of two so you'll have less quantity.
Take out the excess cake from all of the little gaps there and remove the template.
For our crumb coat take some frosting and heat it in the microwave.
Pour it over the cake and spread it out really thinly.
What the crumb coat does is it just stop you getting crumbs in the next layer of frosting
so when you spread it on you'll get a nice clean layer of frosting instead of having
specks of crumbs through it.
Once you've covered all the top and sides in the thin crumb coat add another layer of
frosting over the top spreading it out smoothly.
Now for the fun part adding the m&m's start with mini m&m's for the outline, and add some
mini orange and red where they come across the leg there.
Follow the blue up and around and around the leg
and then add the rainbow coloured m&m's for the tail.
I am going from mini m&m's going to normal ones
to crispy ones in the middle in the middle then back down to minis at the end of the
tail.
Just keep following your picture for which colours go where.
Fill in the body with pale blue m&m's and continue adding the blue minis for outlines.
Then follow the colours that you've put on top down onto the sides of the cake too, you
can use dark blue on the bottom sides of the cake and pale blue on the top sides if you
want to so it is like shading.
Now for the eye, yes we are going to use fondant for this because it just looks better.
cut out an oval shape and then roll a small oval of white and squash it down to match
the shape on the eye there.
Roll another bigger oval and squash that down to match the larger white part of the eye.
Next cut a flat oval out of some purple fondant or you can use deep pink colour. and place
it on top of the white of your eye.
Roll an oval of black and squash that into place on top of the purple.
Then add two pieces that we made just a moment ago of white on top.
Roll a snake of black making it thinner at one end and wrap it around the eye just like
it is in the picture.
Cut yourself three thin eyelashes from a snake of black and add them into place using a tiny
bit of water to make them stick.
Then add you eye into place on the cake.
For the rainbow lightning flash roll roll a snake of red yellow and blue join them together
using a tiny bit of water and bend them into a zig zag and then add flattened white balls
of fondant for the cloud.
you'll need four of those on top.
Roll a thin snake of blue and use that to outline the cloud.
Add that to the cake gently pressing it into place and you're done.
I remember choosing cakes for my birthday when I was little based on how many lollies
or candies they had on top, so I think this one would definitely pass that test.
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Have a great week and I'll see you all on Friday