Bake Off Week 10 – Mayani’s Magnificent M&M’s Birthday Cake

Mayani’s M&M’s Birthday Cake

Our final bake-off was baked by Cyndy’s daughter Jayne, for her daughter Mayani’s 12th birthday. The falling M&M’s were a massive hit with Mayani and her friends!

Make two of the following to create this doubled-up chocolate cake:

1 1/3 cups self-raising flour

5 tablespoons cocoa powder

1 1/4 cups firmly packed brown sugar

125g butter (room temperature)

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla essence

2/3 cup water

1. Preheat oven to 170 degrees, then grease and line a 20 cm cake pan
2. Place flour, cocoa powder and sugar into a large mixing bowl
3. Add the butter and eggs to the mixture
4. Beat all ingredients in the mixing bowl with electric beaters for 2-4 minutes on high or until pale and smooth
5. Bake for 50 minutes, a skewer should come out clean when the cake is tested
6. Leave to stand on a rack to cool

To Decorate:

Betty Crocker chocolate icing (from supermarkets)

Skewer

Two packets of M&Ms

Packet of KitKats

Ribbon

1. Roughly ice one of the chocolate cakes and place the second on top
2. Freeze for 20 minutes (this stops the crumbs when icing), then ice the top and sides
3. Place the skewer in the centre of the double layered cake so that it sticks up from the top
4. Carefully pour a packet of m&m’s around the cake, as shown in the photo, keeping them in place with melted chocolate
5. Gently place KitKats around the sides of the cake (you can use wafers or whatever you would prefer) and place the ribbon around them to keep in place
6. Carefully cut the corner of another packet of M&Ms and stuff with cotton wool then place on the top of the skewer
7. Starting from the bottom, use melted chocolate to stick more m&m’s to the skewer, working your way up. You will need to wait a few moments between sticking the m&m’s until the chocolate hardens. Keep building this up until you can no longer see the skewer.

Are you going to give it a try?  Do send us a photo if you do!

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