Pinata Cake
- Cooking spray
- 2 16 -to-18-ounce boxes chocolate cake mix (plus required ingredients)
- 7 wafer ice cream cones
- 2 16 -ounce tubs vanilla frosting
- 3 7 -ounce bags shredded sweetened coconut
- Gel or neon food coloring (purple, yellow, blue, orange and pink)
- Black icing, for decorating
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Coat two 9-by-5-inch loaf pans with cooking spray; line with parchment, leaving an overhang.
- Prepare the cake mixes as directed.
- Fill the pans about two-thirds of the way with batter (you' ll have a little left over).
- Bake the cakes 45 minutes, then remove 1 cake from the oven and insert the top 1/2 inch of an ice cream cone 1 1/2 inches from an end as shown.
- Continue baking both cakes 10 to 15 more minutes.
- Let cool, then lift out of the pans.
- Use a serrated knife to trim the domed top of the cake without the cone; set trimmed-side down on a work surface.
- Use frosting to attach 4 ice cream cones to the 4 corners for legs.
- Transfer to the freezer.
- Trim the bottoms of the 2 remaining cones with a serrated knife to make pointed ears.
- Cut the cake with the baked-in cone in half to form the head (you won't need the other half).
- Set cut-side down.
- Use frosting to attach the "ears" to the top of the head; transfer to the freezer.
- Divide the coconut among 5 zip-top bags.
- Add a few drops of food coloring to each bag, then shake and massage to mix.
- Add more food coloring as needed until the colors are bright.
- Remove the cake with legs from the freezer.
- Cover the cones with frosting and press purple coconut around them.
- Frost half of the body as shown and cover with yellow coconut.
- Invert the cake so it stands on the cone legs.
- Frost the rest of the body and cover with blue coconut on the sides and orange coconut on the top, leaving a square bare as shown.
- Return to the freezer.
- Frost the head, ears and snout; cover with stripes of purple, blue, pink and yellow coconut.
- Place on top of the body as shown.
- Use the remaining white frosting and the black icing to make eyes and nostrils.
- Photograph by Andrew Purcell
cooking spray, chocolate cake, wafer ice cream cones, vanilla frosting, coconut, purple, black icing
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchens/pinata-cake.html (may not work)