Piggy bank cake
Piggy, the money maker! Piggy is a cute, fun birthday cake. Be sure to have lots of chocolate money left over to share around. Oink Cha-ching, oink oink!
- 1 hr 30 mins preparation
- Makes 1
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Ingredients
Equipment
- 9.5 centimetre round cutter
- 30 centimetre round cake board
Cake
- 1/2 x 460g packaged double unfilled sponge cake round (you only need 1 cake)
- 453 gram tub strawberry frosting
- 2 x mini jam rollettes
Decorations
- 4 x 80g bags gold-foil covered chocolate coins
- 1 white marshmallow
- 1 black licorice stick
- 1 pink mini marshmallow
- 6 white m&m’s
- 1 red sour strap
- 3 centimetre piece licorice strap
Method
Piggy bank cake
- 1Using cutter, cut a round from cake (cut from lower third of cake, not centre). Carefully lift out cut cake; reserve. Position larger cake piece on cake board, securing with a little frosting.
- 2Fill hole in larger cake with chocolate coins, reserving 4-5 coins for decoration.
- 3Carefully position reserved cake round on top of coins. Cut 1 jam rollette in half on the diagonal; using a little frosting, secure against bottom of cake for trotters.
- 4Cut a 1.5cm slice from remaining jam rollette; position on cake for snout, secure with a little frosting. Cut remaining piece of jam rollette in half on the diagonal; position on cake for ears, securing with a little frosting.
- 5Spread remaining frosting all over cake. Cut white marshmallow in half; position on cake, cut-side up, for eyes. Cut black licorice stick into thin rounds, secure to marshmallows for eyes. Cut mini marshmallow in half, position on snout. Position M&M’s on trotters.
- 6Cut triangles from sour strap; position on ears. Cut a 1cm x 3cm oval shape from licorice strap; position on top of cake for coin slot. Position reserved coins around edge of cake.
