Introduction: Surprise Pig Cake

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Ingredients:

Sponge-
• 200g self-raising flour
• 200g unsalted butter
• 200g golden caster sugar
• 4 medium eggs
• 2 tbsp milk
• 1 tsp baking power

Others-
• 100g unsalted butter
• 140g icing sugar
• 2tbsp water
• 100g jam (any flavour)
• tsp red food dye
• Sweet and goodies for the middle (your choice)
• 4 chocolate drops

Equipment:
• Electric whisk (you can use a wooden spoon but it is very difficult)
• a bowl
• 2 cake tins (20cm diameter)
• Bread knife

Step 1: Mixing the Mixture!

• First of all preheat your oven to 190C / gas 5.
• Now put all of your cake ingredients into a bowl and use the electric whisk until the mixture is smooth and pale.

Step 2: Ready for the Oven

• Next divide the mixture into the two cake tins evenly.
• Now pop them into the oven for 20 minuets until they are golden brown.

Step 3: Butter Icing

• While the cake is sponge cake is cooling you can make your icing.
• First of all put your butter and icing sugar together in a bowl a whisk until it is extremely crumbly then add the water.
• After the butter icing looks a bit more like icing add the red food dye until it turns a pale pink.

Step 4: Building the Cake

• Once the cake has cooled cut both cake layers in half.
• Now cut out a semi circle in the middle of two of the halves (make sure you save cut out semi circles).
• Then use the jam to stick each layer together, but make sure you don't put the top part of the cake on without filling your inside with all your goodies and sweets!

Step 5: Smothering the Cake!

• Now use your pink icing to smother you cake (don't use all of it now save some for later!).
• Next cut one of the semi circles into an oval shape and stick it on the face, then smother the nose in icing!

Step 6: Ears and Decoration

• Mow use your other semi circle to make ears and smother them in icing too!
• Then add the eyes and nostrils using the chocolate drops.

Step 7: Finished!

Now you can enjoy your brilliant surprise cake!

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