Hey guys, it’s Ro!
Welcome to another Nerdy Nummies, I got so many requests
from you guys to make something Inside Out themed, we have never made something
Inside Out themed before and I absolutely love this movie.
The first time I watched it, we were on a tour bus, we were driving around
the country touring the Nerdy Nummies Cookbook, it was so much fun!
I have so many good memories of this movie that I want to make something very special.
I thought hmmm we’ve made a piñata cookie before, but we’ve never
made a piñata cake before!
So today we’re gonna be making an Inside Out
Piñata Cake, also known as a Surprise Cake!
With a bunch of yummy, edible, surprise memories inside, let’s get started!
To make a surprise cake you need at least 3 cakes, you have the bottom, the
hollowed center where you’re gonna put your candies or whatever you’d like,
and the then top.
So the ingredients that I have right here are to make 1 cake.
So if like me, you’re making 3 cakes, you’re gonna times this recipe by 3.
But if you’d like to make a huge surprise cake, a 5 layer one, times this by 5.
You get it!
The thing you’ll need, will be: 1-1/2 cups of cake flour, 1-1/2 cups of all
purpose flour, 1-3/4 cup sugar, 1 cup of unsalted butter, 1-1/4 cup of milk,
4 eggs, 1/2 a teaspoon of salt, 1 tablespoon of baking powder, and
2 teaspoons of vanilla.
Now let’s put it all together!
The first thing that we’re going to do is whisk together our dry ingredients
into this bowl right here.
We’re gonna add our cake flour, flour,
baking powder, and salty-salty!
Now whisk together until everything is evenly combined.
I just set the dry ingredients off to the side and now we are gonna cream together
our butter and sugar, into this mixing bowl.
You’re gonna pour in all of your butter, then add your sugar.
Then we’re gonna mix together, pfft-pfft-pfft-pfft-pfft!
Now we’re gonna mix together until it’s light and fluffy.
And now we’re gonna be adding our eggs in, 1 at a time.
We’re gonna add an egg and then mix, egg, mix, and be sure to scrape
in between each time.
Then add your vanilla and mix it up one more time.
Now we’ve got our wet ingredients mixed together, our dry ingredients mixed
together and our milk over here.
We’re gonna add our dry ingredients in 3 parts and our milk in 1/2.
So it will go dry, and then mix it up, and then 1/2 of the milk, and then mix it up.
Dry, milk, dry.
Starting and ending with dry.
Our cake batter’s ready and now I’m getting ready to bake.
Over here I have a
10 inch round baking pan, and it is 2 inches tall, I lined it with a piece of
parchment paper at the bottom, and greased it, so it’s ready to go.
Now you’re just gonna pour your batter in, you’re gonna want to fill it about
80-90% full, you want it to be very tall!
Now my cake is ready to bake, we are gonna heat the oven to 350 degrees and
bake for 30 minutes, then we are gonna reduce the heat to 325 and
bake for an additional 20-30 minutes.
And, just a reminder, I’m gonna be baking
2 more cakes, because I want 3 of these!
I took my cakes out of the oven, they’ve had plenty of time to cool.
I baked 3 cakes, As you can see over here, I cut the first cake in 1/2.
My second cake in 1/2 and my third cake, I just leveled it, using a cake leveler
to be a little bit taller, this is gonna be the top of the cake.
Now we’re gonna cut circles into the center of 3 of our cakes.
This is what makes our cake
a surprise cake!
I just found what I had around the kitchen, this is a 6 inch pan, and you’re just
gonna place it in the middle of your cake.
And then I’m gonna take a sharp cutting knife and I’m gonna cut it out,
all the way around.
As you guys can see, I have a piece of cardboard in between
each layer, so that it won’t cut through.
Just gonna pop it out of the center, ta-da!
Now feeling the joy!
It worked!
Now we’re gonna cut out the center of 2 more of our layers of cake.
Now it’s time to assemble our cake.
What we’ve got over here, we’ve got the
bottom of our cake, the top layer of our cake, and then 3 of the hollowed out
center layers of our cake.
Then to fill our piñata cake I have a bunch of
different mini gum balls here, they are the colors of the memory orb like from
the movie.
We have Yellow for Joy, Green for Disgust, Blue for Sadness,
Red for Anger, I’m not doing that one very good…
Eragghhhh!
OK, there we go!
Eraggghhh!
And purple for fear!
The first thing to do to build our cake is take the bottom layer and place it
onto our cake stand.
Then we’re gonna take our frosting, this is just some
buttercream frosting I put into a plastic baggie, just put a little frosting
around the edges, I’m not gonna frost in the middle though.
Now we’re gonna place on our first hollowed layer, right on top.
Now we’re gonna add our next 2 hollowed out layers.
Before we add our top layer we are gonna fill up our piñata cake with a bunch
of yummy candies.
I’m gonna take all of my mini gum balls and pour them into a
bowl to mix them up.
Now I’ve got all of our gum balls, I’m gonna add them in,
this is about 6 cups.
This is like the most awesome birthday cake!
I wish somebody made me one of these!
Oh yeah, oh yeah!
Oh yeah!
You just want to make sure that it’s nice and full, then we’re gonna add the
top layer of our cake.
Ohhhh, it’s happening!
Our cake is assembled and it is ready to frost.
I’m just gonna take more of the purple buttercream icing, and I’m gonna start
at the top.
I like to smooth it out and then work it down the sides.
Once you’ve got some frosting on the side of your cake, now we’re gonna make it
really smooth looking.
You can either you a very long spatula or I’ve got
this little cake lifter thing, anything with a straight edge, like this, will do.
You guys, this is really cool because it’s super easy.
You just put it here, it’s resting on the plate, and then we’re gonna spin it around!
Just gently push into the cake, and smooth it out.
Our cake’s frosted, and it’s nice and smooth, and now we’re gonna pipe on
the border, we’re gonna pipe on a border on the bottom of the cake, and
around the top of the cake.
I really like to do this because it just brings the
whole cake together, it makes it feel finished.
Over here I’ve got buttercream frosting which I’ve dyed the different character
colors, we have blue, yellow, purple, red and green!
I put them into plastic baggies with number 12 tips because the border I’m gonna
be attempting, is called dots!
We just make little circles all the way around
that look like the memory orbs.
So you’re just gonna start here, bewp!
And then I’m just gonna be alternating the different colors, just like the
memories are stored in the movie.
Our cake is almost ready, to serve, it’s almost done, it’s completely iced,
but I just wanted to make some final decorations for the top.
I wanted it to feel like you were hanging out in headquarters, so I found these
little figurines online, I ordered these ones, but we’re gonna be making their
control panel!
Where they’re doing everything!
Here I’ve laid down a piece of wax paper, and I’ve got some powdered
sugar over here.
So I’m just gonna sprinkle some down, so that our fondant
doesn’t stick to the surface, and now I’m gonna make this control panel,
I’m first gonna start with the white fondant and I’m gonna make a base
and a top, of the control panel.
Base kind of looks like that.
And now, I’m gonna make the top, I’m gonna flatten it.
It kind of looks like
the Super Nintendo game controller.
Then I’m gonna use all the different colored fondants over here, this is just
marshmallow fondant that I’ve dyed different colors, to make all of the little
buttons and levers and shapes that are on top of the control panel.
This is what mine look like.
And with the little fondant balls, you can juggle your emotions!
Ready?
Joy, Sad…
OK….
Final touches!
This part’s easy!
Oh, I’m gonna do the control panel first, because they’re all hanging out around
the control panel.
Come here Joy!
We’ve got Fear, Disgust, and then Sadness, and Angerrrrrrr!
Ta-da!
Here is the inside out cake that we made today!
I think this would make an amazing birthday cake, you guys, it is super cute!
A big thank you to you guys for suggesting something Inside Out.
I am super excited because this is the first time on Nerdy Nummies that
we have ever made a piñata cake, a surprise cake!
Here it is!
I can’t wait to cut it open, see all the little gum balls!
I’m so excited!
I’ll be taking lots of pictures of this cake and posting it on Facebook, Tumblr,
Instagram and Twitter, and if you guys make this cake, please take a picture
and send it to me, I love seeing your baking creations!
I get a big kick out of it, it just makes my day!
Also, if you have any other ideas for any other Nerdy Nummies, please let me
know, leave me a comment down below and I will do my best to make it happen!
Alright, thanks again you guys, bye-bye!
Alright, surprise!
AH!
All the emotions!
Oh no, Sadness, come back!
Get in there!
Dee-dee!